Had I been given such books as a 1st year student, I would have changed fields. Those books were trying to spoon feed the students. Good students need to be cha

Had I been given such books as a 1st year student, I would have changed fields. Those books were trying to spoon feed the students. Good students need to be challenged! The contemporary Math, Physics, and Biology books I have seen are far, far more conceptually challenging than what we present to CS and engineering students in the area of programming. Let me testify from personal experience that Bjarne is on to something here.