Codes on textbooks for cyber classrooms

Shicky

Shicky

Shicky

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Got a book from my uni library the other day 'Deitel's how to program java' which im sure a fair few are familiar with. Reason being i suck at programming in it and desire to get better.

Anyway more to the point its first page has a scratch off code to get access/sign-up to their online facilities. My question being can your account be tracked to a certain code? Or is it much like a games CD-Key in that it just allows access to it? These books must be new as all still have their thing unscratched, im tempted to steal a code so i can access to the online help facilities - but not if i can be tracked and get in trouble for it. I mean if i dont do it, somebody else will who probably isnt that bothered about learning the language.

And yes dont worry im not dumb enough to scratch the code off the book that is loaned out to me!

So should i scratch off a code from another book in the library or will that just equate to a rimming from the uni?
 
Not really too sure to be honest. I will go for it like, but only if its very unlikely theres some sort of linking system from the code u use to gain access to the account you create to use it?
 
Sorry for the thread revival but does anybody know if these codes are linked to accounts then?
 
jamief said:
Why not just ask at the helpdesk in the library? Surely they will be the only ones who know for certain?
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Most likely, but i've seen this in a number of books so thought someone may know how it works or has indeed got away with it before. However if im one of the only people with the book in question, i ask and they say no, then i think i may be first in the firing line when copies in the library mysteriously have codes stratched off from that point forward.

As for the rimming, i can only hope (crosses fingers) :p
 
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