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I agree with most of what he says except for US books beeing to long. I recognized it when I spend a year in the US as an exchange student. The books really are
by BvS 16y ago
I agree with most of what he says except for US books beeing to long. I recognized it when I spend a year in the US as an exchange student. The books really are longer than in Germany but I actually consider it to be a good thing. Sometimes explaining something in 3 sentences makes it easier and therefor faster to understand than saying it in 1 sentence which you have to read over and over agin to get it.
- sliverstorm 16y agoI haven't experienced college-level textbooks to be particularly full of clutter, but K-12 textbooks were full of useless cruft. (not that children in kindergarten have textbooks)
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- kxs 16y agoWell, tastes differ, but I tend to get bored pretty quick and can't stand verbose texts. In my mind they have to be briefly worded and exact and that's pretty hard to come by. Uwe Schönings "Theoretische Informatik- kurz gefasst" (similar to: Gems of Theoretical Computer Science) is an example of what I have in mind. It's hard to find something like that, most books are a pain to read (in my opinion).