> I like to be able to check my answers when teaching myself things.
I agree, although looking at the exercises in this book, they seem to be of the form where the only way to give you the answer is you give you the full solution, and they appear to be phrased in a way that makes it easy enough to verify the answer yourself once you’ve figured out the problem. I always feel like the ideal (for me at least) are problems with numerical answers listed in the back of the book – then I can check my answer with the book’s answer; if I got 42 but they got 5, I know I made a mistake somewhere but it’s still up to me to go back through and figure out where the mistake was. It seems like most of these problems don’t lend themselves to short numerical answers like that.
I agree, although looking at the exercises in this book, they seem to be of the form where the only way to give you the answer is you give you the full solution, and they appear to be phrased in a way that makes it easy enough to verify the answer yourself once you’ve figured out the problem. I always feel like the ideal (for me at least) are problems with numerical answers listed in the back of the book – then I can check my answer with the book’s answer; if I got 42 but they got 5, I know I made a mistake somewhere but it’s still up to me to go back through and figure out where the mistake was. It seems like most of these problems don’t lend themselves to short numerical answers like that.