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READER POLL: Textbooks or experience? Which is the better teacher? Both are great, but I prefer a good textbook to start learning from. You can refer back to it, and there is more time to process the information. Patricia Comeford, engineer (via Facebook) While I can’t say what works for others, I know what worked for me: Rigorous learning from both texts and lectures gave me the tools to build experience. The experience of work gave me opportunities to tackle problems with
Photonics Spectra, August 2014