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Huh what major were you? As a math major we used exclusively physical books and it was fine. There was one time that the professor wanted us to use a theorem in
by RheingoldRiver 3y ago
Huh what major were you? As a math major we used exclusively physical books and it was fine. There was one time that the professor wanted us to use a theorem in a homework assignment from a book he neglected to assign to us for the class. The entire class collaborated on that problem set and emailed him for help, and he admitted he'd made a mistake and lent us a copy of the book. That was probably the biggest can't-use-the-internet mishap, but then again the rest of that set still took us about 24 hours to solve including with the TA's help and the professor ended up canceling the last homework out of 5 total because the 4th one was too hard. That was a great class.
> I once turned in a math exam written using LaTeX and the professor initially declined to grade it.
This is just weird though. I used LaTeX for the majority of my homeworks and also exams. It was about an even split between LaTeX and handwriting for math people iirc.
- knaik94 3y agoWe used digital textbooks, in my entire computer science curriculum, we were never forced to use a physical book. In the last few years, "renting" etextbooks from Amazon caught on. The only exception was a suggestion, not a requirement, to buy the ds algo book as a reference for the future. I can't imagine having to use a physical textbook, the find/control + f feature really speeds up learning.
- indrora 3y agoBy the time I graduated, 90% of my books were ebooks or pdfs the professor had samizdat'd from the publisher. The other 10% were books the publisher only had physical prints of or which I could find pdf copies from other locales of. > LaTeX I submitted a lot of things done in LaTeX that professors hated grading for the sheer reason that I made them count words manually instead of letting them skim-count based on the number of words on a Word page. I eventually wrangled the `Geometry` and `mla.sty` packages into submission and even made my own custom version of Garamond that added an extra en-space to periods following a character followed by a space just to be boring.
- bombcar 3y agoI just made my template dump a word count and nobody seemed to care after awhile.
- sidewndr46 3y agonumerous of my classes had a syllabus that consisted of "buy eBook from XYZ otherwise you receive no credit for this course". At least one course required a book no longer in print or digital copy. the specific exam I am referring to indicated hand written as a requirement. It's also unlikely that the prof. failing me would have survived the scrutiny of the administration.
- drewcoo 3y ago> simply not enough time to go get books off the shelf and complete all my assignments Why bother with books when it's so easy to fabricate?
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoI think you replied to the wrong comment