Re: Lecture Notes FYI

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

My apologies for the trouble. The notes change mostly to
keep _me_ on my toes rather than you on toes. If I 
don't think and make changes before the class, I am likely to fall asleep
while lecturing (I mean  I have taught this 
stuff some 10 times already..). 

I only revise slides for a specific class at two times. 

 --The minutes and hours before the class
 --(occassionally) The minutes and hours after the class (to put in
any additional  information that I covered in the class)
   
One complication may be that I keep a weeks worth of slides in one ppt
file.. I will look into your suggestion of  trying to put some sort
of revision time stamp 

rao


At 02:58 PM 10/18/2003, you wrote:

> Hi Dr. Rao,
>  
> This is just an FYI.
>  
> This may sound trivial, but is there any way we could add like a rev.
> number to the lecture notes when they are posted?
>  
> The reason for my request is pure selfish one.
>  
> It has nothing to do with "printing" the lecture notes, but
> rather of down-loading them. I probably may be the ONLY student that does
> not have a hi-speed or mobile internet connection (can't afford it right
> now - $$$), so I use regular modem phone lines and for big files (> 4
> or 5 Meg) sometimes takes a few hours to download.
>  
> Still, I currently have about three or four versions of all lecture
> notes. That's because every week, I download the last two lecture notes
> and compare for changes, just in case.
>  
> I think one of the reasons was to keep people on their toes, and insure
> they were consistently looking at the class materials, and this may
> defeat the purpose. So, don't know.
>  
> Just wondering.
>  
> Thanks,
> Magdiel.
>