Mon, 11 Oct 2021, 21:02 Re: Cheat Sheet on Tablet

A student writes:


> Hi Dr. Patt,
> I was wondering if I could make my cheat sheets using my tablet. I like to
> color code things and was going to write on the tablet then print it out.
> The TA's said to ask you if it was ok. If not, that's fine. Thanks.
> 
> <<name withheld to protect the student wanting use his tablet>>


No, it is not ok.  I hate to be firm about this, but the point of the
three cheat sheets is to allow you to write down everything you do not 
want to bother memorizing.  ...which I think is a good thing.

The first time I offered this, one student carefully prepared a set of
cheat sheets which he sold to students in the class, thereby defeating
what I had hoped to accomplish by not requiring you to memorize stuff
that you can easily look up.  So, I quickly adjusted my constraints on
the cheat sheets to: "they must be in your own handwriting."  In that
way, no one can prepare your cheat sheets for you.  Allowing the use
of a tablet to prepare the cheat sheets defeats the purpose.

By the way, colored pens can be used to color code.

Good luck on the exam.

Yale Patt