> If the professors want to use the book in classrooms then they should come up with their own exercises instead of basically stealing the book's questions.
I always wondered why there weren't supplement books/websites of practice problems that were separate from the text book. Seems like an easy way to make money. I guess because it makes it harder to pass on to the students.
Re:Books I Recommend
by mattkrause on Monday February 25, 2019 @09:42AM
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There are! Some books have “solution manuals” or “companions” with worked solutions to a subset of the problems. There are also those big compendia of “5000 problems in linear algebra” or whatever.
It’s true that these are most common for big, intro-to-intermediate classes, and less common elsewhere, but there are a lot kicking around....
I completely agree that any book with exercises without solutions is completely useless. I didn't even have access to professors or any teaching assistants even DURING my undergraduate years. So the assumption that you can discuss the questions with your professor doesn't even hold water.