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Studying Wikipedia is the best way to get up to speed on a subject quickly. It lacks scholarly depth but It was simply assumed on my high school quiz bowl te
by Synthetase 16y ago
Studying Wikipedia is the best way to get up to speed on a subject quickly. It lacks scholarly depth but
It was simply assumed on my high school quiz bowl team that one read Wikipedia in his spare time. I've got around ten tabs open while I crash through data structures. Will it give the same depth as Knuth? Nope. But it dos give me a 80% understanding for 20% effort.
- petercooper 16y agoBut it dos give me a 80% understanding for 20% effort. That's the sort of knowledge that's most valuable for the average person to have nowadays. Enough knowledge to know what questions to be asking and what queries to be making, not necessary enough to answer every question accurately!