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replyOf course you learn more if you retype material than if you do nothing, but it's still a waste of time, comparatively speaking, because there are much better ways of engaging with the material like solving practice problems.
replyHaving to spend 95% of the time taking notes of things that could be distributed in a PDF has only ever hindered me academically. It's mechanical and boring, my mind tunes out and I get nothing out of it.
Taking down the lesson/lecture does relatively little, you can do it on autopilot. If anything, it distracts from listening to the content. When I took computer science at university (mid naughties) we were given digital lecture notes anyway. (Mathematics lectures did have to be written down but there were no typed notes to start with so it was just out of necessity.) It's the exercises afterwards that are useful for learning. Or summarising notes in your words.
replyWhen I did a CS degree in the 1980s we had one lecturer who handed out copies of hand-written notes but then would talk about stuff that wasn't really in the notes - sort of verbal annotations.
replyGuess what he would ask about in the exams?
Even better would be to rewrite it by hand with a pen.
replyYes some people teach C this way, for a little while, I don’t forget semicolons as much as people around me later seemed too, may or may not be related
replyI started programming this way as a kid with books and notes that I'd then periodically would be able to enter into a computer to see if it runs.
replyI programmed this way my first year of community college because I didn't have a computer. I'd retype all of my work in the computer lab.
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