"For Dummies" books a good alternative for aspies?

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I'm having trouble in my classes because the books are full of really dense material with very few visual examples or bullet point summaries. I asked my teacher if there was an alternative and he recommended the "For Dummies" books. I haven't been able to find the particular ones I need at my bookstore, but I was wondering if this series has quality books.

The "... For Dummies" books are a good alternative for everybody. They're written in a simple, common style that seems like a nice person is talking to you (instead of a college professor talking down to you).

Plus, the publishers will even correct mistakes in later editions of the same book.

Shadewraith, what academic topics are you struggling with?

Maybe I or someone else on this forum could help in addition to recommending the "For Dummies" series...which I highly recommend just like Fnord did.

Lots of engineers and scientists happen to be AS so a lot of alternative visually-focused study guides for those subjects are available and I used many during college and graduate school.

Hi Shadewraith! The Dummies guides, and the Idiots guides can help with many different topics. Do look into them. And do check with the IT members here at WP for some help.

I am switching from an old PC running Linux Ubuntu to a new refurb running Win7 soon, and plan on getting one of those guides to help me with the new OS. I did have an old Win PC prior to the one running Ubuntu, but that was some years ago, and there have been a lot of changes in Windows since then. Between the desktop tutorials, and the guide I buy, I should do all right because I was able to use Win fine before, and I am no computer geek. My problem was frequent crashes. A relative told me though, that Win7 is pretty stable compared to older versions, so that sounds good to me.

Having an easier book to use in your studies makes a lot of sense. The point of the course is to learn the material as best you can. It shouldn't matter what text book you use, as long as it helps you learn the course.