> I appreciated the good man pages, as I tried to do everything within the self contained system, without resorting to internet searches.<p>I've been trying pretty hard to commit to this style of learning. It seems to me that using the internet to discover deep, comprehensive, self-contained resources for offline learning is an incredibly powerful way to learn. A pseudo-inverse to this idea is that over-use of search engines can really hamstring the learning process.<p>The idea as I now articulate it seems sort of platitudinal, but I'm nevertheless glad to have started paying attention to it in recent months.