The Literary Life of a Science Leader

Chapter 174 Writing Textbooks, Zhang Chuyang's Thigh Hugging
There is a well-known industry principle in the IT industry: Don’t reinvent the wheel.

It means that you can make it yourself, but if someone already has a good enough wheel, you should not try, or even use some means, to try to replace the wheel.

In the same way, if there are enough good textbooks for a certain subject, if there is not enough level to compile better textbooks, it is best to use other textbooks.This not only saves resources, but also ensures that Huaxia students can see that the ideas in the textbook are synchronized with those of foreign students.

Huaxia's universities have a problem, that is, they want to make their own things.

In some respects, this is true. If you don’t do it yourself, you will be stuck abroad, but the teaching materials are completely unnecessary.

For example, linear algebra, such an important subject, excellent foreign textbooks have gone everywhere, but some universities in China still have to ask some teachers from their own schools who are worrying about their level and have poor language skills to write a textbook. Finally, it is euphemistically called "excellent teaching materials".

And these rubbish textbooks have harmed batch after batch of outstanding students.

Maybe most students in the world are like this. They will obediently go to class, listen to the teacher read the PPT, and then study the textbooks recommended by the school carefully, and then when these textbooks make them confused, they will use this course The class is difficult to comfort myself, and in the end what I learned is unclear.

This is not alarmist.

Take topology, which is extremely important in mathematics, for example. Huaxia's textbooks often directly write concepts such as topology, subtopology, and product topology there, and never explain why they are defined in this way.

Foreign textbooks are often exploratory, and will tell you the reasons for these definitions, tracing back to the source.

Huaqing University's linear algebra is an English textbook, which is well written and explains why matrix multiplication should be defined in such a 'disgusting' way.

Of course, Huaxia's teaching materials are not completely useless.

Mr. Hua Luogeng said that reading must have a process from thin to thick, and then from thick to thin. This is the meaning of sparse coding first, and then feature extraction.

To do this, there must be a sufficient level.

In fact, the textbooks written should be easier to understand than the lectures given by the compiler, because what one person writes is often the result of Jin Guo's careful thinking and sorting out.

It cannot be done without a certain background of knowledge.

But the current textbooks compiled by Huaxia have a lot of benefits.

There must be subsidies. At the same time, the compilation of teaching materials can also be the reason for the so-called funding application. How nice it sounds to say "teaching materials tailored for Huaxia University of Science and Technology"!
In fact?

The knowledge update speed of these textbooks is very slow, and many new things and new knowledge have been released long ago, but the textbooks in Shanghai contain those old things and old knowledge, and the exam must be tested according to this textbook, in the name of laying a good foundation.

Some people may feel that this is going too far.

But it didn't.

Because Mu Jingchi just wanted to start with the lecture notes first, and then write a special teaching material for the dislocation theory system.

There are only two things of real value in the world, one is something that the creators have never seen, and the other is the advancement and optimization of things that have been seen.

And Mu Jingchi's dislocation theory system textbook happens to belong to the first category.

He wants to write a good enough textbook, and the handouts for elective courses are his first step.

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Coming out of Professor Tian's office in the teaching building, Mu Jingchi walked along the road to the Caiyan building at the back.

"Minister Yi, what do you need from me?"

Outside the door, Mu Jingchi saw someone waiting for him, Minister Yi from the school's Propaganda Department.

Because of Mu Jingchi's breakthrough in scientific research, relevant publicity work must be done well. Minister Yi and Mu Jingchi have also contacted each other several times, so he can recognize it.

Minister Yi followed Mu Jingchi into the office, "Well, it's still some propaganda work."

"Sorry, the water here is not hot yet, so I can't make you a cup of tea."

"It's okay, it's okay." Minister Yi waved his hands again and again, "I won't disturb your work anymore, just say a few words and leave."

"Then you say."

Mu Jingchi led Minister Yi to sit on the sofa and said.

"It's like this. The annual college entrance examination is coming soon, and our enrollment work has also begun to move. We would like to invite you to do a publicity for our school, to help support, and to attract people."

Mu Jingchi nodded, "This is what I should do, what should I do?"

"It's very easy. Someone from our department will come over in the afternoon. You can shoot a short video and say a few words. It doesn't need to be so formal, it will take less than 10 minutes."

"At that time, our short video will be put on short video platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou."

"This is good. Send me a copy of the video when it's ready. I'll post it on my "Scenery" platform to promote my alma mater."

Minister Yi smiled and nodded.

"Another thing is that a TV station sent me a program invitation. I hope you can sit on the program. Isn't the college entrance examination coming soon? On the one hand, let's talk about the experience and mental preparation of the college entrance examination. School admissions promotion."

Mu Jingchi shook his head this time, "I can't agree to this."

"The recording of the program is too time-consuming and energy-consuming. I have a "Exquisite" platform to avoid this situation. It is too time-consuming to go back and forth, and the scientific research tasks on me are relatively heavy, and I can't get rid of it at all. body."

"That's fine, I'll reject them directly."

Mu Jingchi said no, then Minister Yi had nothing to do with him, the Propaganda Department must have accommodated Mu Jingchi's work.The Propaganda Department has no right to allow people to participate in the recording of programs without doing scientific research tasks.

"There are only two things, Dr. Namu, you are busy."

Mu Jingchi stood up, sent Minister Yi to the door, and then returned to the office to start the busy work every day.

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"Qianqian, is this not good?"

Zhang Chuyang and Zheng Qian were eating in a restaurant outside, and they talked about scientific research work, and he still hesitated.

"What's wrong?" Zheng Qian kept breathing, because a plate of spicy chicken was too spicy, she quickly took a sip of water, "Isn't your current project over?"

"I happened to be looking for Mu Jingchi to ask for a big project. Your direction is not useless. You can cooperate with the team from the School of Mechanical Engineering."

When Mu Jingchi kept moving forward, Zhang Chuyang did not stop.

His own task was not set too high. It was Zhang Chuyang's idea to move forward step by step in a down-to-earth manner. This first step has already made a steady and progressive breakthrough.

But subsequent tasks will be much more difficult.

This difficulty is multifaceted, and theory, experiment, equipment, resources, money, etc. are all indispensable.

He is just a first-year postgraduate student, and his achievements are even worse than Mu Jingchi, so the funds for the project must not be enough.Even if he is Yang Wenwu's student, he can't apply for too much funding, after all, his status is there.

Therefore, Zheng Qian suggested to Zhang Chuyang to hug Mu Jingchi's thigh.

"Let me ask you, do you need to do loss fracture analysis for the new materials they have successfully developed?"

(End of this chapter)