Learning Organic Chemistry
I see a lot of people trying to find an easy way to learn organic chemistry. That is the main hurdle to learning, trying to find an easy way. If you wanted to learn to drive a car, but didn't want to actually get behind the wheel, it would be exactly the same. It isn't that learning to drive is so difficult, but if you never actually drove, you could logically complain about how difficult it was.
The analogy of learning a foreign language is also apt. The most effective methods ask that you ...
The analogy of learning a foreign language is also apt. The most effective methods ask that you ...
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The analogy of learning a foreign language is also apt. The most effective methods ask that you also speak the language. Speaking requires greater use of your brain. That greatly improves learning. For organic chemistry, just reading a book or watching a video will not teach you as much as actually doing a problem, applying YOUR logic to a problem. That is why explaining a problem to another person is also effective. It exercises YOUR brain. The other person doesn't even have to understand it, the process of you explaining a problem is something that is happening in your brain. That is an effective learning technique. (That is why study groups are also effective and most effective to the contributors.) The difference between an 'A' and a 'B' student is that the 'A' student can explain an answer to someone else.
If there was a way in which the only method in which I could allow anyone to access the pages of "A Guide to Organic Chemistry Mechanisms" was to obtain a printed page, I would do that. I cannot make a person use a pencil, but I don't see how anyone is writing on their computer screen to solve the problems. I can imagine writing on a piece of paper.
"A Guide to Organic Chemistry Mechanisms" is as good as it gets. The problems are written so that you can solve them without your book. However, unless you are actually solving them for yourself, you are probably just wasting your time.
Edit: Printing is disabled. I am going to concentrate selling the hard copy version.