[HN Gopher] The Manga Guide Series
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The Manga Guide Series
Author : rg111
Score : 39 points
Date : 2022-01-28 21:56 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| jchw wrote:
| I don't know how good these are for actually learning a subject
| matter, but I've always been tempted to pick up a couple, if only
| to keep on the shelf. There are some that cover topics I'd
| genuinely be interested in and have a poor enough grasp on that
| they would likely be useful as introductions if nothing else. And
| even if not, it's difficult to deny the novelty :P
| dragontamer wrote:
| I've only read a few but its hit-or-miss... to be expected since
| the series is written by so many different authors.
|
| I think the Manga Guide to Databases was really good, but the
| Manga Guide to Linear Algebra was pretty bad.
|
| To be fair, Linear Algebra is really difficult to teach and hard
| to think of a silly story to wrap it together. But the Princess
| in the "Database" story is trying to organize the apple-orders of
| her kingdom, and that's just enough "story" needed to be a good,
| practical example of Databases, 3rd normal form (as well as the
| inconsistencies you'd come across in just 1st or 2nd normal
| form... and how those inconsistencies could lead to double-orders
| or incorrect data).
| echelon wrote:
| > The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
|
| > The Manga Guide to Organic Chemistry
|
| > The Manga Guide to Quantum Dynamics
|
| > The Manga Guide to Soil Mechanics
|
| > The Manga Guide to Project Management
|
| They have everything.
| picture wrote:
| Found a pdf of the microprocessors one if anyone feel like
| sampling what the content is like.
|
| http://50.116.28.134/MangaGuidetoMicroprocessors.pdf
|
| Imo I love things like this just for the fun (novelty) of them!
| dylan604 wrote:
| my browser, FF, just said nope to that link. maybe a good thing
| as I didn't actually mean to click it.
| BoysenberryPi wrote:
| I enjoy this series quite a bit and read more than a few but
| these books are far denser than people realize. After each manga
| section there are several pages of an afterword of sorts that
| feature some of the densest textbook level explanations you'll
| ever see simply because they can't give the needed depth in the
| manga parts of the story if their goal is to actually teach
| something.
| astrange wrote:
| Larry Gonick did western equivalents of these; Cartoon History of
| the Universe is either the best book I've ever read or the best
| comic book.
|
| It's rather 70s though, so the art can get psychadelic and it
| covers several different religions as if they're literally true.
| But it has to be the only kids' history book written in the US
| that treats China's history as just as important as ours.
| corysama wrote:
| I'll vouch for the Manga Guide to Databases. It's a solid first
| introduction wrapped up in a silly little story about a princess
| and a fairy. Read numerous 5-star Amazon reviews for more.
| cercatrova wrote:
| These are great, I used to read these back in the day, if only
| for the novelty.
| lemarchr wrote:
| Are they capable of fulfilling the role of primary learning
| material? Or are they supplementary to more traditional texts?
| cercatrova wrote:
| Yeah they do teach what you need to know, in my experience,
| but they're not textbook level in explanation, simply because
| there's no space for that much text on the page.
| knowaveragejoe wrote:
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