I usually find that (good) textbooks can let you learn the subject matter by yourself, whereas lecture notes are excellent reference material but, if you didn’t attend the lectures, they’re just not going to make for good building material on their own.
I usually find that (good) textbooks can let you learn the subject matter by yourself, whereas lecture notes are excellent reference material but, if you didn’t attend the lectures, they’re just not going to make for good building material on their own.