textboooooooooooks: to buy or not to buy? (1 Viewer)

[untouchablecuz]

MATH1141
PHYS1131
ENGG1000
COMP1911

will lecture notes suffice for any of these classes?

current 2nd years and anyone who can give an opinion welcome
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[tommykins]

only buy physics and the math package.

don't know about comp1911

dn't buy the math textbook, waste of money.

 

[Omie Jay]

i think i still have my comp1911 textbook (if they're still using that Problem solving and abstraction with C book, if u wanna buy it off me )

engg1000... get your group to buy 1 textbook to share, it'll tell you how to write reports and process plans and whatever.

maths get the course pack, textbook is not needed at all.

phys... i got the textbook.

 

[Sokolov]

yeah, dont buy the textbook ($100+) for math1141.
the course pack (it was $55 for us) is absolutely essential. no online copy. the first year computing notes are available online.

since you are doing electrical engineering, if i recall correctly, the physics textbook is used across higher physics/physics 1A and 1B, so do get.

i think i still have my comp1911 textbook (if they're still using that Problem solving and abstraction with C book, if u wanna buy it off me )

engg1000... get your group to buy 1 textbook to share, it'll tell you how to write reports and process plans and whatever.

maths get the course pack, textbook is not needed at all.

phys... i got the textbook.

yeah the author knew that students sell off their fat $100+ textbook so the author condensed his content heavily and the price with it so the op can get it off me or this guy.

engg1000 was a waste of money.
should have got it from the library or chip in and then sell it off altogether at the end of the year.

 

[tommykins]

Lol we didn't use the engg1000 book and still did fine.

 

[Sokolov]

see thats what i mean.
them recommended textbooks should be borrowed/"acquired by other means" as a reference when you have the time. not worth the money.

 

[henry08]

I'll be getting the maths and physics books, although probably not hte others.