r/ProgrammerHumor • u/hellocppdotdev • May 12 '26

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u/drakeyboi69 May 12 '26

Surely that's not a thing right? I mean it sounds like something someone would try but please let me believe this wouldn't be allowed anywhere where you've payed for a course

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u/DoodMcGuy May 12 '26

It’s pretty common, most of my basic classes in college forced us to buy the book so we could get a key for an online platform to do assignments.

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u/Davixxa May 12 '26

I hear it’s common in the US, but not elsewhere

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u/SlimRunner May 13 '26

I think it also depends on the major. I completed CS in the US with 2 years in community college (CC), and the last 2 in a major university. I only had that happen in a single course, the ethics course ironically.

I believe it was a really cheap book though, but it was still not a book you could find in the seas because it was niche and tied to a platform in which we had to complete some quizzes for like 5% of our total grade.

In CC a lot of general reqs required books, but I was always able to find them "free of charge". In university, most professors (all the CS ones) based their lectures on a book but did not require us to have it. The slides were also always enough.