Please Vote: Exercises in TDPL?

[Sean Kelly]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message 
> news:a6268ff5d238cba2e80afc1d36 at news.digitalmars.com...
> 
>> (That and the fact most profs never worry about what a book costs when 
>> they spend your money)
> 
> Now *that* one I definitely *don't* have any difficulty believing. Hell, 
> half of the college classes out there amount to nothing more than US$2k book 
> recommendations.

That hasn't been my experience.  I've had a lot of professors who've 
said whether the previous (used) version of a book would work for the 
course, and for reading-intensive courses I've ever had professors who 
xeroxed massive amounts of material to hand out to spare students the 
expense of buying books.  Another option at many universities is to go 
to the school library.  They generally have all the course material 
available for students to use... they just can't leave with it.

That said, the cost of textbooks is still completely ridiculous.  I also 
don't understand why professors seem to always choose academic textbooks 
on the subject when I know there are infinitely better trade books 
available (which I generally already own).