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Piracy (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 60 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

I bought some textbooks for university.

Ended up not using most of them.

Most computers science students are used to computers, internet and StackOverflow.

Not paper.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Here is a PDF of the book you need for this course, you may not share it and the file will self destruct the day after finals. Thanks for the $150

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The younger teachers were doing something similar to this. Teachers have to follow certain sets of rules to not get fired.

    It was mostly the oldest, gray-haired teachers that were requiring textbooks. Stuck in their old ways.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    At least you OWN the text book and can reference it years later. That PDF scam was a real piss off

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That might work in other domains other than computer sciences.

    But from my experience, nobody cared about books and papers in computer science. Everyone is more comfortable with technology.

    You can easily Google or find things on the internet.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The professor that taught my algorithms & data structures course said if we were going to keep one book it should be the one for that course. I followed that advice and it's the one textbook I still have. It's been 8 years since graduation and I haven't opened it once. I tend to just read Wikipedia if I need to understand a particular algorithm or data structure.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    There's nothing wrong with paper books.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I never said there's something wrong with paper books.

    I'm even reading one right now. Lord of Rings paper version.

    But for computer science students textbooks, it's heavy, inconvenient and spacey.

    The internet or even PDFs are better.

    Why?

    It's easier to do research, CTRL+F and copy/paste some programming code.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you're copy pasting code you're not learning a whole lot.

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