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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Wrox Books by PickyH3D · 2005-02-20 21:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I have never read a Wrox book I did not keep. A lot of the Microsoft (gasp) Publisher books are well written as well. I have never read a JavaScript book... there's always the internet for a ton of articles on it.