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Can't agree. Even as recent as about one decade ago, the best way to learn a programming language is often buying a book or checking out a book from the librar
by rty32 2y ago
Can't agree.
Even as recent as about one decade ago, the best way to learn a programming language is often buying a book or checking out a book from the library, because that's the only high-quality source on the topic. Since then we have had people creating complete tutorials like the Rust book and distribute it on the Internet, for free.
In the US, some professors profit from selling textbooks that get updated every few years, forcing students around the around to pay hundreds of dollars to get the latest edition. (That's still the norm.) Yet we are seeing less of that in the computer science field, especially with books like Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces ( https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ ) -- the professors are literally practicing communism and giving away the book for free.
- gwright 2y ago> the professors are literally practicing communism and giving away the book for free. Ah, no. That isn't communism.
- lupire 2y agoArguably, professors are paid a salary to write those books.
- rty32 2y agoThe point is that they could have gone the proprietary path and earn $$$ from textbook money. Instead they are getting nothing from the material.
- bandrami 2y ago> the professors are literally practicing communism and giving away the book for free No, that's more like potlatch. "Book communism" would be if authors owned the printing presses. (Or maybe if printing press technicians owned the printing presses.)
- kjkjadksj 2y agoWell, if its an ebook and you own the server, you own the printing press and the bookshop.