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if self teaching you need a book that holds your hand and doesnt try to put you through the usual trials of "lets see if you can figure this out yourself.. oh y
by globalnode 1mo ago
if self teaching you need a book that holds your hand and doesnt try to put you through the usual trials of "lets see if you can figure this out yourself.. oh you cant? maybe repeat the subject next term", or major proofs left as exercises for the reader. get a friendly hand-holdy book. im reading linear algebra, theory, intuition, code by mike cohen atm (up to ch4) and so far between that and a chatbot for clarification/links, im re-learning the L.A. i should have learn't at uni but for whatever reason just did not understand back then. those courses move fast and if you get stuck somewhere its game over. i think L.A. is way harder than calculus as a beginner, but once things start to click and fall into place it starts to feel easier.
- fn-mote 1mo ago> lets see if you can figure this out yourself.. If you are SELF-teaching, you need to learn how to figure things out. When you can’t, there’s plenty of sources. It’s not the 1990s. Your favorite LLM probably gives good explanations of linear algebra ideas even on fast mode. Gemini was surprisingly good for me.
- globalnode 1mo agotaking it upon yourself to self teach is figuring things out for yourself, no need to make it harder than it needs to be.