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I find this especially relevant. Recently I found an old textbook that was amazing. Lots of great detail on nearly impossible to find subjects. I emailed the p
by 3rdAccount 8y ago
I find this especially relevant. Recently I found an old textbook that was amazing. Lots of great detail on nearly impossible to find subjects.
I emailed the professor (now near retirement) for the answers to the solutions as I'm no longer a student and the book has been out of print since before I was born. He told me he didn't have it anymore as it was on an old computer on an operating system that doesn't exist anymore.
All the code, example answers lost to time.
It made me wonder just how common this phenomena is.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoCompare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036255, where right now people are slamming the OP for posting solutions to Coursera exercises. If the goal is education, the solutions should be published too.
- 3rdAccount 8y agoAgreed. If there are 100 problems in a book and I work all 100, how am I to know if I did it right? If I get one wrong (which I assuredly will), how am I to see what I did wrong? Some teachers are awful too and the only way to learn is to get your hands on a solutions manual and reverse engineer your understanding. It can be a very frustrating experience.
- voltagex_ 8y agoWhich textbook?
- 3rdAccount 8y agoIt was an electrical engineering text on power systems.