I don't get this. Sure, it's been a while since I started university (fall 2003) but is stuff really spoonfed to starter students?
I'm not saying you have to deliberately make everything hard - but we got a little bit of introduction in the first week and then were sent off to cope on our own. You had the other students, older semesters and whatever else resource to solve your problem.
I don't think I'd want it any other way these days (oh wow, 15 years later) or feel that anything except the first week was tailored to people fresh from school. Sure - people taking courses around their work schedule is a problem, but it's a totally different problem. Either you know it's supposed to be a fulltime course, or it's not.
Also, maybe I'm a little biased for having majored in Computer Science, so mostly everything was digital or online even back then. But smartphones would make coordination with other people so much easier than email and texts... Or maybe American (live-in / campus) colleges are really that different from German universities that I simply cannot imagine the problems this book would show :P
I don't think I'd want it any other way these days (oh wow, 15 years later) or feel that anything except the first week was tailored to people fresh from school. Sure - people taking courses around their work schedule is a problem, but it's a totally different problem. Either you know it's supposed to be a fulltime course, or it's not.
Also, maybe I'm a little biased for having majored in Computer Science, so mostly everything was digital or online even back then. But smartphones would make coordination with other people so much easier than email and texts... Or maybe American (live-in / campus) colleges are really that different from German universities that I simply cannot imagine the problems this book would show :P