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Computer Textbooks For High Schoolers?

Posted by kdawson on from the basics-for-beginners dept.

wetdogjp writes "I recently became a high school teacher, and I've inherited three classes with no textbooks! While two of my classes are introductory in nature, one for computers in general and the other for networking, the third class should prepare juniors and seniors to enter the workforce and start a career in computers. We have some older textbooks by Heathkit available, but the newest of them are four years old. Do Slashdotters have any favorite textbooks that can help kids on their way to becoming junior sysadmins, programmers, networking professionals, etc.? Would you suggest books to prepare students to take certification tests such as A+, Network+, or others? Any textbooks we use would need to cover quite a breadth of material, such as PC hardware, operating systems, networking, security, and more."

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  1. Re:High School Graduate Computer Careers? by tukang · · Score: 0, Troll

    They will probably be hired as interns (see free labor)

  2. Re:Write your own by Hognoxious · · Score: 1, Troll

    You can be pissed all you want that homeschooling is more successful than public schools at giving kids a good education

    If your definition of "good education" is that the Earth is 6000 years old.

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  3. Re:paper is overrated by oldhack · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can search the internet with Google. Shut down the school and save the money.

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  4. Re:Write your own by AuMatar · · Score: 1, Troll

    Actually, they aren't. But keep telling yourself that, I'm sure you can convince yourself that you aren't fucking over your kids for life.

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  5. Re:paper is overrated by Ngarrang · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Textbooks have one major advantage over web pages. They have been through an editorial process."

    And that editorial process is not always perfect and can itself introduce flaws based on current-day fads, political correctness and hidden agendas. AND, many of those text books are simply meant to prop up the additional incomes of the people who wrote them FOR THEIR OWN CLASS. I had many text books in college that weren't even used, but the professor "required", that he had conveniently written.

    So, no, I believe your faith in professional publications is hopelessly optimistic at best, and naive at its worst.

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