Am I the only one who prefers blog posts, examples and wikipedia to textbooks? For anything IT related, anyway.
Textbooks are cripplingly sparse. They yak and yak and yak for a few pages on a concept you're figured out from the first sentence.
I would like a zoomable textbook. One which presents you a list of tl;dr explanations about every topic covered (one-two pages per book), but you may click on any topic and get a thorough description of it, and then I can click on any claim in that and get more specialized information and so on down to turtles.
I recommend checking out the "Simple English" wikipedia for more complex topics. It breaks those sentences down even more and is fantastic for math articles and the like.
Textbooks are cripplingly sparse. They yak and yak and yak for a few pages on a concept you're figured out from the first sentence.
I would like a zoomable textbook. One which presents you a list of tl;dr explanations about every topic covered (one-two pages per book), but you may click on any topic and get a thorough description of it, and then I can click on any claim in that and get more specialized information and so on down to turtles.
I would like articles that way too.