• NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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    I love how he doesn’t even bother trying to consistently maintain the facade. It’s a *Chef’s Kiss

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    I paid $1000 for books my first semester of college back in 2007. I felt so burnt and violated I never bought another textbook. I made it through the rest of undergrad, a masters, and a PhD in biochemistry by checking out books from the library, borrowing textbooks from friends, and going sailing. When I taught I made it a point to teach my students about all the ways they can avoid becoming a victim like myself.

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    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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      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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        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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          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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            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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    I had a professor who kept all the materials from the books that he wrote on his website. He was cool with students printing the html pages and bringing it to class.