Boring book mid-course instruction
Key to the challenge: Focus on the design, not the subject matter.
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Personally when I buy books by Adobe which purport to explain their subject matter and then lead in with flowers, animals and nature, I find invariably their design subjects are more boring than looking at a book on accounting! I am serious.