Some things just need more memorization than others. I used a ton of flashcards for Latin vocab and learning the farsi alphabet but almost none for my CS classes (used notes for those).
I'd enjoy seeing a complete list of the disciplines that require such rote learning. I think the broad categories might be "areas where people invent lots of arbitrary rules" (law, accounting, medical coding) and "complex systems we don't understand well" (chemistry, biology, neurology). Others?
Jeff_Brown|4 years ago