How Would You Select a Textbook?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday February 19, 2005 @03:48AM from the select-the-lessons dept.

benj_e asks: "I'm thinking about doing some adjunct teaching at a couple of local community colleges, and have the opportunity to choose the textbook for an online JavaScript class. In the training classes I've given in the corporate world, I didn't have the need to select a text - there were no textbooks for the software I was teaching students to use aside from the manual. I'm pretty sure I want something with WebCT or Blackboard content, but other than that I'm, well, clueless. So, for all you educators out there - how do you go about selecting a textbook? What goes into your decision making process?"

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How would I select a textbook: by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-19 04:07 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I would select a textbook that covers some serious language instead of Javascript. Also, if I was "well, clueless" I wouldn't have chosen to teach people, now would I? Seriously, what's wrong with Lisp, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Python, Tcl, Objective C, Forth, etc.? Do you want to teach what's "cool" this week and make your student's knowledge irrelevant in few months? Because teaching Javascript is exactly that.

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