We used Strang for Linear Algebra. It was the only math class in college I did badly in. I tried multiple times to understand linear algebra and every time I

We used Strang for Linear Algebra. It was the only math class in college I did badly in. I tried multiple times to understand linear algebra and every time I ended up at the picture in the first few pages of the book. Each page built upon the previous page and there were no pictures to anchor on. A year later I took an OpenGL class then a grad class in Computational Geometry. Once I had pictures and application I was fine. Morphing space and w/ matrix transformations and drawing in it in OpenGL was all I needed to snap the semester of symbol manipulation into focus. Strang to me was like man pages. Great for reference, terrible for learning.