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> If you want to learn something, and have the motivation, then reading the textbook is easily good enough Anecdotally, I found it dramatically easier to learn
by jobs_throwaway 2y ago
> If you want to learn something, and have the motivation, then reading the textbook is easily good enough
Anecdotally, I found it dramatically easier to learn math through Khan academy than from textbooks. For one, I have terrible handwriting which makes the pen and paper part messy and hard to read, and for two, Khan's lessons were broken down into much smaller, more digestible steps.
I took discrete math at Uni and had to learn it from the same Rosen textbook that many on this thread probably did themselves. If I had the same thing in an online version analogous to Khan Academy, I think I would've had a much better time. Now obviously, some of the harder problems and proofs in that book are much harder to grade automatically the way Khan does for grade school math, but that seems like something LLMs are trending towards being able to do