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minus-squareFrank Ring@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up40·edit-21 year agoI bought some textbooks for university. Ended up not using most of them. Most computers science students are used to computers, internet and StackOverflow. Not paper.
minus-squareTheObviousSolution@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoTextbooks that are good references are great. Textbooks that are just another class and withhold the answers are garbage.
minus-squarelightnegative@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI found this in my first and second year so I stopped buying them. Half the time it was just “recommended reading” and the book wasn’t even used in class. Yep, not gonna shell out $120 per book for “recommend reading”
minus-squareslimarev92@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down4·1 year agoThere’s nothing wrong with paper books.
minus-squareFrank Ring@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoI never said there’s something wrong with paper books. I’m even reading one right now. Lord of Rings paper version. But for computer science students textbooks, it’s heavy, inconvenient and spacey. The internet or even PDFs are better. Why? It’s easier to do research, CTRL+F and copy/paste some programming code.
minus-squareslimarev92@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·1 year agoIf you’re copy pasting code you’re not learning a whole lot.
minus-squareFrank Ring@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoYou’re clearly not a programmer lol
minus-squareslimarev92@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoCopy pasting code is THE WORST way to learn how to program.
I bought some textbooks for university.
Ended up not using most of them.
Most computers science students are used to computers, internet and StackOverflow.
Not paper.
Textbooks that are good references are great. Textbooks that are just another class and withhold the answers are garbage.
I found this in my first and second year so I stopped buying them.
Half the time it was just “recommended reading” and the book wasn’t even used in class.
Yep, not gonna shell out $120 per book for “recommend reading”
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There’s nothing wrong with paper books.
I never said there’s something wrong with paper books.
I’m even reading one right now. Lord of Rings paper version.
But for computer science students textbooks, it’s heavy, inconvenient and spacey.
The internet or even PDFs are better.
Why?
It’s easier to do research, CTRL+F and copy/paste some programming code.
If you’re copy pasting code you’re not learning a whole lot.
You’re clearly not a programmer lol
Copy pasting code is THE WORST way to learn how to program.