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> But funny thing, I bought some reference books for one of my teams recently and had to teach a couple of them how to use an index because they had only learne
by rpgmaker 11y ago
> But funny thing, I bought some reference books for one of my teams recently and had to teach a couple of them how to use an index because they had only learned to ctrl+f to find things.
That's unsettling. Were they college educated? I assume that they are but I can't fathom how you can get a college degree and not know how to use an index.
For reference books I find myself preferring PDFs because of the fixed layout.
- bane 11y ago> That's unsettling. Were they college educated? Right out of. I had to give the "back in my day" speech making me feel impossibly old. I think it's a function of both plowing through textbooks and then just googling for information when you need to find something again. It wasn't so much that they didn't know how to use an index, just that they hadn't done it since probably middle school or earlier and had simply forgotten what those 30-40 pages in the backs of reference books were for.