Back in college I used to take all my notes in cursive, mostly to help me pay attention in class (the busywork of trying to make my handwriting as nice as possible helped me keep focus).

The earlier programming courses involve a lot of paper programming, because the finals involved writing programs on paper. So I ended up writing a lot of programs in cursive, and it looked something like this (except much uglier). Although I found it a fun exercise, I don't know how much (if at all) it helped me develop my understanding of programming