how do you take #notes for comp sci? and even programming - i used to write programs on paper<33 but now i gotta take notes on concepts and everything. ​ why didn't i ask this before ohmygod
anywayyy, if you have ANY advice pleease let me know ​ i've been struggling since forever. i want to keep my notes, they're beloved to me ,, so it's not just for class but hopefully for wayy longer than that.

#SendHelpPls #notetaking #compsci #AdviceNeeded #advice #compscistudents #study #university 

( also, are hashtags the best way to get responses? )

@nadia Could you just take your notes in markdown? Make a private GitHub repo and keep all your notes in there!

That way you can upload any files / slides the prof provides, and you'll get auto code highlighting!

(Make sure you upload copies of all your stuff and all the stuff provided to you as course material -- students often lose access to digitally distributed course material after the academic term ends!)

@mvu hellaur! Thank you for ur suggestion :D i havent used github yet, i have an account tho - do u have any recs for easy tutorials? I asked my c# instructor and she didn't really help 

@nadia Oh gosh I don't have any tutorials, I think I ended up learning GitHub through osmosis over time (I'm old)

You don't actually need to learn much for note taking, tho! Just log in and create a repository, then press *new file* and save it as whatever.md

~~HOWEVER~~

Even BETTER idea I didn't think of before, there's a lovely little program called obsidian that lets you take markdown notes, and even link together notes and ideas. It's great because it has a slightly nicer editor and still saves all your files as plain text markdown files, so in the future you can convert them all into whatever format you want!

Likely easier than trying to take a crash course in GitHub for note taking, and I know a lot of people that swear by obsidian. Give that a try before you take a crack at git -- you can just download it and run it and start taking notes easily, and I'm sure there's a handful of "getting started" with obsidian and markdown videos out there!

@mvu oHMYGKD yes obsidian i downloaded it and forgot about it. I think i wanna learn how to use github tho - obsidian is fun but i like github because i can use other peoples notes, programs and stuff  Thanks a lot ! I'll look at both obsidian and github tutorials and whichever i get the hang of, i'll go for it