Re: Pencils down tomorrow

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 03:28:51PM -0500, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 09/15/2013 06:12 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > By tomorrow you should have finished the code for your projects
> > and will need to start cleaning your code, writing tests and also
> > producing documentation.
>
> I wonder if we'll still be using the phrase "pencils down" 10 years
> from now, when no student uses one anymore?

Surely they'll remain available to do sketching, figure drawing, etc.

More seriously, a pencil & paper are small and practical for free-hand
exploration of problems.  These days, I use them before
whiteboarding...

Cheers,
David.
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