Yes, certainly a worthy cause, and this appears to be a well-executed project!
Is this the Connexions book? Huh, I certainly did not know that OpenStax CNX is a thing either… What is cnx.org? Some sort of predecessor to openstax.org?
Bingo. It was a previous project done at Rice and elsewhere before the MOOC craze took off.
I have a hardcover edition of that book. Rice is a small school with (many) problems, but in DSP and compiler theory they kick a decent amount of ass–or used to, anyways.
They have some other great faculty as well. Ron Goldman teaches an amazing graphics course (if you like math), Dan Wallach is a hilarious security researcher, and Keith Cooper has a pretty amazing compilers course that will learn you a thing or two.
why, oh why can’t this be presented as plain old HTML rather than some animated, AJAXey mess. on mobile I can get all the way through the slow page transitions to the ToC of a book, but when I click on a section it freezes and goes back to the book overview after several seconds.
Yes, that surely is a turn-off. I just downloaded the PDF files for offline reading. For mobile, I guess that the Android app or iBook version might work better.
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing and working with some of the people involved in this project, though not in this context. It’s a worthy cause!
(Even though the distantly-related connexions book on electrical engineering by Don Johnson is awful and full of suffering).
Yes, certainly a worthy cause, and this appears to be a well-executed project!
Is this the Connexions book? Huh, I certainly did not know that OpenStax CNX is a thing either… What is cnx.org? Some sort of predecessor to openstax.org?
Bingo. It was a previous project done at Rice and elsewhere before the MOOC craze took off.
I have a hardcover edition of that book. Rice is a small school with (many) problems, but in DSP and compiler theory they kick a decent amount of ass–or used to, anyways.
I wonder if there is such a thing as a problem-free school. :-)
A professor (compiler specialist, of course!) I know was Ken Kennedy’s student at Rice. I remember reading this obituary.
They have some other great faculty as well. Ron Goldman teaches an amazing graphics course (if you like math), Dan Wallach is a hilarious security researcher, and Keith Cooper has a pretty amazing compilers course that will learn you a thing or two.
why, oh why can’t this be presented as plain old HTML rather than some animated, AJAXey mess. on mobile I can get all the way through the slow page transitions to the ToC of a book, but when I click on a section it freezes and goes back to the book overview after several seconds.
Yes, that surely is a turn-off. I just downloaded the PDF files for offline reading. For mobile, I guess that the Android app or iBook version might work better.
Sadly, the android app is just a wrapper around the webpage. I think you can’t pre-download the books on it.
Just a random question as an European: what’s the difference between AP and normal books?