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I just need to vent a bit.
When I was looking at textbooks for this semester, I found that I could spend less than half as much if I got two of my books as digital (the third was only offered paperback). I guess they proved you get what you pay for- the spacing and typos in one of the books make it really hard to read. Since it's coding I'm fortunate that the line numbers are shown so I know what goes where, and spelling is pretty intuitive for me anyway.
That's not my biggest problem though. After a really busy week, what with a hurricane coming through, chores/toddler-keeping, errands, back-and-forth fights with insomnia, and trying to figure out what day of the week it was, I couldn't get one of my assignments done until the very last minute (like an hour to go). It would have taken a lot less time if the problems I had to do were, you know, NUMBERED, and maybe adding some spacing would help.
To clarify, Problem #1 was written as two paragraphs, the second one line below the first. Problem #2 started one line below Problem #1 without a line break or anything, so without the numbering, it looked like the same problem. I had to do Problem #3, which meant reading the problems, figuring out which paragraphs were part of the same problem, and hoping I got it right. I didn't have time to email my teacher or any classmates about it but I'm going to make sure I do in the future.
Oy.
When I was looking at textbooks for this semester, I found that I could spend less than half as much if I got two of my books as digital (the third was only offered paperback). I guess they proved you get what you pay for- the spacing and typos in one of the books make it really hard to read. Since it's coding I'm fortunate that the line numbers are shown so I know what goes where, and spelling is pretty intuitive for me anyway.
That's not my biggest problem though. After a really busy week, what with a hurricane coming through, chores/toddler-keeping, errands, back-and-forth fights with insomnia, and trying to figure out what day of the week it was, I couldn't get one of my assignments done until the very last minute (like an hour to go). It would have taken a lot less time if the problems I had to do were, you know, NUMBERED, and maybe adding some spacing would help.
To clarify, Problem #1 was written as two paragraphs, the second one line below the first. Problem #2 started one line below Problem #1 without a line break or anything, so without the numbering, it looked like the same problem. I had to do Problem #3, which meant reading the problems, figuring out which paragraphs were part of the same problem, and hoping I got it right. I didn't have time to email my teacher or any classmates about it but I'm going to make sure I do in the future.
Oy.
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