OOP in Python book?

James Stroud jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu
Mon Jul 30 16:37:20 EDT 2007


Dick Moores wrote:
> At 01:27 PM 7/28/2007, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:27:57 -0700, Dick Moores <rdm at rcblue.com>
>> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>>
>>
>> > Well, the publisher is Prentice Hall, "The world's leading
>> > educational publisher". Textbooks are typically expensive.
>> >
>>
>>         Yeah... But at that price it should have hard-covers!
> 
> 
> Should have, but look at this popular Cultural Anthropology text 
> (paperback): <http://tinyurl.com/38ec5s>. List price is $120.95 USD. 
> (BTW I just bought the 6th edition online for about $10.)
> 
> Then there's Calculus: Single Variable (Paperback) 
> <http://tinyurl.com/2lqw9c> List price $123.95 USD.
> 
> And so it goes.
> 
> Dick
> 
> 

Balme your professors. They are not paying for the books. Of course most 
will be give a lot of lip-service to educational access for 
disadvantaged groups but thier choice of books usually suggests 
otherwise. The high price of textbooks and the tendency for professors 
to overlook alternatives is helping to keep the rich educated and the 
poor, well, poor.

James

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