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Book, Whine, and Thinker

Book, Whine, and Thinker

by Adam Huber on June 16, 2020 at 10:13 am
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  1. Alpha-Sigma
    Alpha-Sigma
    June 16, 2020, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

    I will agree that reading is much more pleasant when it’s telling a story rather than trying to enforce knowledge. Regardless of WHAT you’re trying to teach someone, pure prose is not effective. Even for something like computer code, where it’s all text anyways, you need diagrams to show what properly formatted code should look like.

  2. Jason
    Jason
    June 16, 2020, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

    No no… the universe is like a tostada, not an enchilada. Flatish, roundish…

    I mean, really…

  3. Wingspin
    Wingspin
    June 17, 2020, 7:44 am | # | Reply

    Yes! Neil DeGrasse Tyson could read practically anything and I’d be enthralled.

  4. J-L
    J-L
    June 17, 2020, 10:43 am | # | Reply

    Adam, you’re more correct than you realize!

    When I was taking a programming course in college, we used the book “C++ How to Program” by Deitel & Deitel. It was a pretty dull book.

    Soon after, the Deitel & Deitel authors updated their programming books to include cute little “bug” cartoon characters (sound familiar?) that give helpful hints. In my opinion, this improved their programming books tremendously.

    A quick look on Amazon, and I can see that “C++ How to Program” is now in its tenth edition, and still includes those cute, helpful bugs.

  5. Dinwar
    Dinwar
    June 17, 2020, 8:52 pm | # | Reply

    I once was reading a book on taphonomy (how dead things become fossils) for work and repeatedly started laughing. Trying to explain to my wife why “rotting animal in a stream bed” and “running for your life from a guy defending an illegal gold claim” combined, much less how they resulted in me giggling at 11 pm, proved to be a futile effort.

    That said, pictures help. Scientists are visual people. Tell us something, we get bored. Write an equation, and we’re interested. Show us a picture? We will spend the next three days trying to figure out what the hell is going on, how it can be useful, and whether we can weasel a publication out of it. Despite what the media tells you, scientists are mostly just little kids that never grew up. We play with toys all day, we love to color with crayons and colored pencils, and the first thing we do (by inclination and training) is look at the pretty pictures.

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