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1,000 Tips, 1,000 Pictures
and a Game of Connect Four
Matteo Cossu
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We conceived this book with the idea of a text-
book in mind. Nevertheless, when trying our
hand at the challenge of giving it a didactic
slant, we were faced with a harsh reality. Do
you remember high school? Or better yet, junior
high? Long hours of staring blankly at a book
alternated with chewing pencil tops and read-
ing the same sentence over and over again. The
texts seemed endless even when they were only
short lectures–and it seemed they were trying
to ransack our teenage angst-ridden thoughts. ...