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Looking at an algorithms book where the very first thing, at the top of chapter 0, is an epigraph in Latin, with no translation.
Is there any better way to tell an unconfident student, "You are not smart enough to read this book?"
@peterdrake
Name and share, please!
So often the 'quotes' in Computer Science books are given with no source the wrong one. Authors pretend to be learnèd, but they aren't.
@WiseWoman https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/
I don't want to give the author too much grief, because he has made his book available online for free, which strikes a huge blow for accessibility on another axis.
@peterdrake Okay, I understand.
@peterdrake Also seems like a pretty strong accidental metaphor for the gulf in difficulty between writing code and reading it.