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I agree that many books were bad simply because the authors could not write well and had no idea about pedagogy. I think the number of people who knew something
by tralarpa 3y ago
I agree that many books were bad simply because the authors could not write well and had no idea about pedagogy. I think the number of people who knew something about a particular subject was just smaller and that's why it wasn't questioned much by the publishers.
Another reason may be the fact that a lot of information could not yet be found on the Internet. That is why some authors were more interested in listing the information than in pedagogical communication. The result were books like "Chapter 1: How to start the compiler from command line", "Chapter 2: List of all functions of the standard library", no chapter 3.
- tibbon 3y agoAgreed. I think many of these books were written by people who knew the subject themselves, and were just putting their knowledge on the page without much of a feedback and testing loop to see if it was using a method that transferred to a person who didn't already have that knowledge. Also, far too much simply typing out code that was unexplained or had no basis in prior text to the learner.