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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's nothing wrong with paper books.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 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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