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Whenever I see a collection of (e)Books, I have this urge to build something that functions the following way: You pick a topic out of the collection, the page
by adem 13y ago
Whenever I see a collection of (e)Books, I have this urge to build something that functions the following way: You pick a topic out of the collection, the page tells you the prerequisites to understand the topic along with books covering that topic. For each book, it shows a tree of books, beginning with one that requires no prior knowledge up to a book that covers the topic. Something that shows you a "path to mastery". Do you think something like that is practical?
- minimize_me 13y agoYou should look at the intro to David Mackay's information theory book. It had something akin to what you're saying...
- twowordbird 13y agoI was curious about this, Googled for it, found it freely available from Mackay's website. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf Referenced table on page six of the PDF.
- adem 13y agoThanks to both of you!
- ezequiel-garzon 13y agoI wish I knew how to build such thing. In any event, your project would be immensely popular. Hopefully financially rewarding too!
- karanbhangui 13y agoThought about this a lot over the past few years. Feel free to email me (address in profile) and share ideas.
- ZirconCode 13y agoI want this. It reminds me a bit of KhanAcademys knowledge maps, on a higher level of course (https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard https://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard).
- VLM 13y agoThat's an interesting idea. You may not like this, but I suggest another complicated dimension be applied like learning style. A concrete example of what I'm taking about is some people learn the quicksort best in prose / analogy, some learn it best in psuedocode, some learn the best in whatever language they are most comfortable in, and some would learn the best from graphical animation flowcharty type things. So its entirely possible the path to mastering the quicksort would be four different books for four different people. Of course you can "fix" that by simply having different paths to the same goal for different learning styles. Even worse is people playing their own multidimensional games when mushed up against a multidimensional book. So is the little schemer series really a book about learning scheme or a book about learning programming or purely educational learning how to think? One book could quite easily end up in three totally different linked list / tree diagrams that you're proposing. Purely from a startup business strategy idea, I suppose you have a guaranteed sale to some bookseller or another.
- sten 13y agoI'd use that. I've considered something similar for online classes, but there is no reason why it couldn't be all learning channels.