• Frank Ring@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
      2·
      6 months ago

      Here is a PDF of the book you need for this course, you may not share it and the file will self destruct the day after finals. Thanks for the $150

      • Frank Ring@lemmy.world
        0·
        6 months ago

        The younger teachers were doing something similar to this. Teachers have to follow certain sets of rules to not get fired.

        It was mostly the oldest, gray-haired teachers that were requiring textbooks. Stuck in their old ways.

        • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
          1·
          6 months ago

          At least you OWN the text book and can reference it years later. That PDF scam was a real piss off

      • Frank Ring@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        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.