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"I've always found a good way to pick text books and other reading material for a specific course is to find the university with the leading department for that
by plinkplonk 15y ago
"I've always found a good way to pick text books and other reading material for a specific course is to find the university with the leading department for that subject, then find the syllabus for a class in that course taught there."
This is a great way to find good texts. A wrinkle I add is to check the prerequisites for a course and repeat the process for each prerequisite till you have an ordered list of texts. Working through a text is much easier if you have nailed the pre requisites.
- osivertsson 15y agoI used to do this too, ordering a big box of books from syllabus of prestigious universities at a level that was often way beyond me. I usually flipped through them, and picked up a few things, but in the end I realized I had to really understand linear algebra, or number theory, or whatever, to really grok what was going on. Now I knew I needed these prerequisites and why, not that someone just told me so. This motivated me a lot more to get through (or nail) the prerequisites.