Being created by students for students, this type of textbook can offer tangible advantages. Each of the authors of the textbook have gone through the courses that they are writing about, so presumably they have a better idea of what areas of the course are difficult and can explain in their own words how they got certain concepts to click. Since the students know which materials are covered in the course, they make sure that the necessary sections are covered in the wiki. However, no section gets ignored — as happens often with traditional textbooks.
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