On 2013-09-03 09:54, Brittany Postnikoff wrote:
Does anyone happen to have these books for Comp 1020 at U of M? If you
do, please let me know. I'd be happy to rent/buy/borrow them off
someone.
TITLE: STARTING OUT W/JAVA:FROM CONTROL.... AUTHOR: GADDIS (F14)
EDITION: 5TH 13 ISBN: 9780132855839 REQUIRED/OPTIONAL: OP
TITLE: GROWING ALGORITHMS AND DATA STRUCTURES 4 AUTHOR: COMP 1020
EDITION: F12 ISBN: 9780100007369 REQUIRED/OPTIONAL: RQ
Amazon. Seriously... the first one was $30, second appears to be a
bespoke book and therefore more likely it will actually be used.
As well consider searching for ebook versions as they could be cheaper
too.
Of my entire long stay at the UofM I've actually needed the textbook for
a course a total of a dozen or so times (over many years). I still
bought them all like a chump (until 'third year').
Most CS courses 'have to' have a book (for policy reasons) but the prof
rarely uses it or assigns readings. I just didn't buy book until the
prof assigned something from it and if it was just an assignment... I'd
either pool buy a copy of the book with a few class mates or bite the
bullet. Either way never buy the books in the first week or so. The
bookstore will stock for the course so there is no real rush and if the
bookstore is actually out, ask them to write that down and hand that to
the prof (in one case prof lent me a copy until the bookstore got more
in).
Wow, textbooks are such a racket.
--
Sean
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