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My Comp Sci lecturer always said you could get a lot by coming to class 10 minutes early and reading the relevant material and leaving 5 minutes late to read it again. I tried this method for a third-year compilers course and it was a very efficient way of getting a high frequency of "Gotcha" moments of understanding.

As an aside, I really love how responsive and friendly web pages in this plain HTML style are. It's a pity they're only used by older academics now.

Obviously you've all seen[0], but just in case...

[0] http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

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> It's a pity they're only used by older academics now.

For about a year or so I've gone with the (nearly) plain HTML style. It sometimes feels weird to avoid styling, but it's hard to do better for anyone using a mobile device/poor internet connection. It really changed my perspective when I was using a 2G connection and couldn't even check the score of a football game.

I really appreciate the plain HTML too, but it can be a bit ugly, and too wide on my monitor. I use a bookmarklet with sakura[0] to make these pages look nicer.

  javascript:var head = document.head, link = document.createElement("link");link.type = "text/css";link.rel = "stylesheet";link.href = "https://unpkg.com/sakura.css/css/sakura.css";head.appendChild(link)

[0]https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura

Yeah, I go more the approach of http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

You can still make an unfriendly website with plain HTML. For example, see http://stallman.org.

text.npr.org is a good example.

On similar lines: http://lite.cnn.com/en

This is beautiful, thank you for sharing.

How do you do this when the lecture hall is occupied by the previous class or you have back to back lectures?

I think the main idea is that you can do little quick easy things that can have a big impact in the long run.

On the way to your next class think about the lesson is there anything you've learned that you didn't know? In what ways can you restate the lesson, what are the main ideas. What possible questions could be asked.

During lunch read the summary section and see if you can connect any dots.

Looking at the homework early (without even solving them) will give you ideas to ponder and questions to ask during lecture.