I have a couple of links that I feel like sharing with the world.
The first is Pauls Online Notes, which has by now pretty much fully replaced my calculus curse. I can’t recommend this site warmly enough. Clear explanations are followed up by examples and practical uses all written in a language that’s easy to read. In comparison my obligatory calculus book for the course I’m taking is written completely without prose, only stating theorems in a condensed mathematical language. This might work in case I needed to look up information I already kind of knew, but while I’m learning, I really need a more practical approach. That said I should mention that I’m attending to a French speaking university (epfl, Switzerland) and however universal math might be as a language, I still feel more at home reading English.
The other link I wanted to share is a very well written guide on how to set up Clojure on Ubuntu. Clojure is a lisp like programming language I’ve been playing around with lately to take my mind of the tedious java exercises I’m going through in school. Clojure is a functional programming language that runs on the jvm and it’s pretty neat, although I haven’t spent more than a couple of weeks doing some small projects in it.
Common to both these two sites is a generous time and effort put in to helping whatever person who might profit from the information. I really love when I see other people doing something like that just because. However cheesy it might sound, it kind of makes me believe a little in humanity after all.
So thanks to Jonathan Riddell and Paul Dawkins for making my day.
