> It's these little things that make your professors stand out

The calculus text at my university was a “custom” edition that came unbound and shrink-wrapped and still cost as much as a regular new text. My calculus IV professor said many times over the first week: “Do not take your copy down to the document shop on Jackson avenue and run off copies of the relevant chapters for your friends, because that would be illegal. I say again, I cannot advise you take your copy down to the document shop on Jackson Avenue next to Pizza Hut and run off copies of the relevant chapters for your friends because that is IP theft and illegal.”

Fantastic professor—I really that semester because of him.

I was not a CS major but I had a number of friends that were CS majors and one of the courses used a book written by the professor, who is also the department head. The book cost like $200-$300. It was a shitty rewrite of the Sun Java documentation with a few added exercises and some reworded bits.

Fucking racket. Also something something cheating and plagiarism is bad unless you're the head of an academic department.

>$200 for a textbook with borderline extorsion sale tactics

That's the moment I fire up libgen

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