Re: Cost of the course

Posted by WBahn on Jan 07, 2013; 4:24pm
URL: http://nand2tetris-questions-and-answers-forum.52.s1.nabble.com/Cost-of-the-course-tp4025462p4026024.html

ninmurai wrote

What's the reason for Chapters 7-12 not being available online?

So that you have to buy the book.

Keep in mind that the authors have invested a lot of time and effort into developing this material and would like to profit from their investment.

Making half the book available on line allows people to get a very good feel for what the level and scope of the book is, without having to request courtesy copies from the publisher, before deciding to adopt it for a course while still ensuring a reasonable revenue stream from those courses that do adopt it. Given the extremely reasonable cost of this text (about 1/5 of a typical engineering text these days), this is a refreshing and appreciated (at least by me) approach.