I usually work from either printed notes or a tablet. For example, I
deliver the shell lesson exactly as written so I teach that with a tablet
open to the lessons and refer to that as I go. In the past when teaching
Python I've printed my completed notebooks to refer to during lectures.

- Matt

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:02 PM W. Trevor King <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 03:51:04PM -0500, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> > The live coding is exactly the same as in the SWC material, but it's
> > not on the slides.  So I'm not sure where he gets the material
> > from. Is it learned by heart or does he have a printed out version
> > next to him or somewhere else?
>
> I think folks go both ways.  I've heard of folks using a separate
> laptop or a split screen so they can see the lesson notes, using
> note-cards with a condensed version of commands to hit, and just
> reading over the lesson several times and then winging it.  I think
> the note-less approach makes it easy to keep a pulse on student
> engagement, but a lot of time has gone into tuning the current
> ordering of commands within lessons.  Striking the right balance
> without the prep-time to learn both the current ordering and
> supporting reasoning (so you know when you should break from the usual
> script) by heart will be an individual-instructor decision.
>
> Cheers,
> Trevor
>
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