Neeum Zawan wrote:
>     At some point in my undergrad years I realized that I learned _much_ 
> better by reading than by listening. 

Mostly, yes. But when the topic is on the edge of my comprehension, having 
it played out live on the blackboard is helpful. Watching the derivation of 
radiosity matricies, or watching alpha/beta pruning in process, or going 
over massively SIMD algorithms, were all things that were much more clear to 
me than I got out of reading the book.

There are still things I discover that a little animation will make clear 
when a textbook doesn't. Like, rotating a tree to balance it, which one of 
these days in my copious spare time I'll actually animate. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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