I've found, in various learning environments, that I do best when things go wrong. I get a much fuller understanding of an exercise when my first answer requires debugging.
So I suppose the typos in the text should be accepted as a blessing, since they increase the probability of a debugging session.
Matching typos; these I regard as blatantly unfair. After all, one of the checkpoints is whether an equation is consistant with its neighbors. Eventually, I gained enough confidence that the book was wrong to check it against the original paper, which by good fortune was near to hand.
I think this indicates I've gone beyond the reasonable point with my recent book purchases. And three more are supposed to be on the way.
December 29, 2003 9:15 PM
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