Re:The future of education is plain text
by gkya on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:32PM
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Also: PDFs have pages and thus page numbers, which are an important tool. When working with long texts you need reference points to share your state.
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Re:The future of education is plain text
by JetSpiegel on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @07:57PM
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That's what hyperlinks are. They even have the better property that they don't break if you change the font size for the whole text.
They don't mean much in a classroom of say 30 or 40. A lecturer will have n people with n texts and will have to synchronise them. In a typical lesson you jump to different pages also non-sequentially. The best option is a PDF etc. that you can optionally print. Anything else is a recipe for chaos, especially if you're not in a CS classroom.