I’d like to see some examples on this. Anyone care to nominate best online resources for various subjects vs. best books?
A fast google did turn up a couple of serious looking mathwebsites for learning math from arithmetic to what looked like intermediate subjects, and I’m sure there are sites for more advanced math. On the other hand, except for learning more quickly whether you’ve gotten correct answers to the problems (not a small thing), I’m not sure that using them is very different from using a textbook.
Especially for history, there’s a tremendous amount that isn’t online. Even if the best material (whatever that means) is online, if you really want to dig into a subject, you’ll need books and other written material.
Anyone care to nominate best online resources for various subjects vs. best books?
Amazon. :-)
More seriously, Wikipedia and Mathworld are both good for looking up particular mathematical details, but they’re better used as entry points than as final answers. In fact, that’s going to be true of any general source for any subject. The quest for knowledge begins with 100 web pages open on the desktop.
I’d like to see some examples on this. Anyone care to nominate best online resources for various subjects vs. best books?
A fast google did turn up a couple of serious looking math websites for learning math from arithmetic to what looked like intermediate subjects, and I’m sure there are sites for more advanced math. On the other hand, except for learning more quickly whether you’ve gotten correct answers to the problems (not a small thing), I’m not sure that using them is very different from using a textbook.
Especially for history, there’s a tremendous amount that isn’t online. Even if the best material (whatever that means) is online, if you really want to dig into a subject, you’ll need books and other written material.
Amazon. :-)
More seriously, Wikipedia and Mathworld are both good for looking up particular mathematical details, but they’re better used as entry points than as final answers. In fact, that’s going to be true of any general source for any subject. The quest for knowledge begins with 100 web pages open on the desktop.
Are we comparing best to best, or likely-to-be-employing to likely-to-be-employing? Because I think the former is a bit of an impossible task.