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Discussion on: Your Textbooks Might Be Outdated

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Chris Achard

Huh, interesting to think about :)

In college I definitely recognized that some of the textbooks were already out of date (even though they keep coming up with new revisions every year!) And yes, OS was one of them 😃

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Robin Palotai

Yes, in retrospect it would have just taken a small reaching out for advanced material. But it was so easy to forgo that amidst the turbulence of life.

OS is easy to pick on, since it's unsettling how interesting could that class be made. But other subjects could be improved as well.

Somehow this makes me remember one more advice: Seek cross-class connections! If you learn something from probability theory, see how could it apply to say embedded systems. Try to make non-obvious connections.