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IanB:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on August 26, 2020, 06:49:29 am ---Clearly you weren't alive in the 70s, and can't appreciate the scarcity and expense of duplication technology.
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This is something of a tangent, but you have just caused me to remember the word "Gestetner".

[Edit: I see the thread has already gone off on this particular tangent]

Sal Ammoniac:
On some forums, EDABoard is a good example, 75% of the traffic in some of the subforums is students asking for someone to solve their homework problems. I don't find that surprising, but what I do find surprising is that many people on these forums, including old timers, take the bait and actually answer these people. Most of these homework question askers seem to come from a certain subcontinent.

coppice:

--- Quote from: IanB on August 26, 2020, 03:32:44 pm ---This is something of a tangent, but you have just caused me to remember the word "Gestetner".

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Its depressing how many successful technology companies I used to walk past regularly as a kid which have long since gone, but I don't think I'll ever miss Gestetner. :)

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on August 26, 2020, 04:34:57 pm ---On some forums, EDABoard is a good example, 75% of the traffic in some of the subforums is students asking for someone to solve their homework problems. I don't find that surprising, but what I do find surprising is that many people on these forums, including old timers, take the bait and actually answer these people. Most of these homework question askers seem to come from a certain subcontinent.

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The objection I have to edaboard and stack exchange is that they deliberately limit subtle - and therefore interesting - conversations, by only allowing very limited context to be quoted.

That condemns the conversations to be little more than "which button do I press to squaff the zirdle?". That is boring rote learning, best accessed via google - and then forgotten.

paulca:

--- Quote from: coppice on August 25, 2020, 10:04:23 am ---
I had courses where the lecturer wrote so fast that we spent the entire lecture trying to keep up with writing our own notes. and had no time to think about and properly absorb what was being said.

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I did my degree with the Open University.  Most of my friends at local "brick uni's" where complaining about having to take hand written notes and getting handed dodgy photocopies of course materials, which they had to clip into ring binders.

My courses arrived by mail with full colour, full gloss, shiny, printed textbooks.  Lecturers were presented on VHS (and then later DVD and in come cases Multimedia interactive things).  All software provided.   By the time I finished my degree in 4 years I had a pile of course textbooks 4 feet high.

Some courses provided the actual 3rd party textbooks, but some required you go buy your own copy.  Luckily these only cost me about £100 for the whole degree.

There were "Tutorials" which was once a fortnight with the tutor face to face classes at a local school in the evenings.  I went to 2 of them at the start and then never bothered.

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