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One reason for a good tutor is having some direction. I feel this is like asking for a "serious computer book". Do you want a book on C++ or Dummies guide to Wi
by CJefferson 4y ago
One reason for a good tutor is having some direction. I feel this is like asking for a "serious computer book". Do you want a book on C++ or Dummies guide to Windows or regular expressions or Turing machines or chip design or functional programming or hash functions or ...?
- jodrellblank 4y agoSemi-serious question; how come you never hear of a 10 year old math prodigy where someone stopped them at age 4 and said "ah, ah, ah I refuse to tell you anything about math until you've decided what you want to learn specifically and what you are going to use it for", yet it's everywhere on the internet, multiple times in every thread on all kinds of topics? Yes, I know why people think it's a great comment, what I want to know is given how many of us learned about computers as children before we had any idea about functional programming or Turing machines, how do we get recommendation threads to move away from this?
- CJefferson 4y agoHonestly, with a child I would give them a book on a topic I think they would enjoy. If an adult said "suggest a book I might like", I'd also give them something on a topic I thought was interesting. Saying you want a "serious maths book" really is just too large a range. I could suggest an excellent book on computational group theory (my prefered area of maths), but honestly for most people that wouldn't be something they'd want to read.