sans-hubris
09-19-2001, 09:57 PM
So how much are your textbooks? I know textbooks in general are expensive, but I'm curious as to everyone else's prices.
mine:
Data Structures, Algorithms, and Object-Oriented Programming by Gregory L. Heileman (McGraw-Hill) $53.05 used
(kinda ridiculous considering that the book is only about 400 pages long)
Digital Electronics A Practical Approach by William Kleitz (Prentice Hall) $68.94 new
(more reasonable, this is a BIG book)
Introduction to RISC Assembly Language Programming by John Waldron (Addison-Wesley) ~$35.00 new (I think, this was last year)
(even more ridiculous, only 180 pages long and the pages aren't even that big, not expected for an assembly book)
C++ How to Program by Deitel & Deitel (Prentice Hall) ~$70.00 new (I think, last year)
(this one seems to be the right price for quite a bit of material, but we never used it)
I'm missing a few books, but I don't have them at hand atm. I always debate about getting a new or used book because I'm keeping all my CS books. I am keeping the Digital Electronics book even though it's not really a CS book, but it still has a lot of interesting stuff about computers and electronics in general.
I can't wait until the artificial intelligence course. I already had the professor for that course in another course and he was really cool in the course I had him in. There is one professor I have a lot of respect for as a computer scientist, but not as a teacher. You might think you would want to be taught by a l33t teacher, but the entire attitude doesn't make for a good learning environment, no matter how much the teacher knows. I'm glad that I have thus far been able to keep up and get through the courses I had with him without having to ask him a lot of questions. All my friends tell me they hate asking him a question because he makes them feel like a gnat and that their brain is about the same size. So, yeah, I respect him because he really knows his stuff, but I don't look forward to having to take his courses.
[ 20 September 2001: Message edited by: Muad Dib --formerly ndogg ]
mine:
Data Structures, Algorithms, and Object-Oriented Programming by Gregory L. Heileman (McGraw-Hill) $53.05 used
(kinda ridiculous considering that the book is only about 400 pages long)
Digital Electronics A Practical Approach by William Kleitz (Prentice Hall) $68.94 new
(more reasonable, this is a BIG book)
Introduction to RISC Assembly Language Programming by John Waldron (Addison-Wesley) ~$35.00 new (I think, this was last year)
(even more ridiculous, only 180 pages long and the pages aren't even that big, not expected for an assembly book)
C++ How to Program by Deitel & Deitel (Prentice Hall) ~$70.00 new (I think, last year)
(this one seems to be the right price for quite a bit of material, but we never used it)
I'm missing a few books, but I don't have them at hand atm. I always debate about getting a new or used book because I'm keeping all my CS books. I am keeping the Digital Electronics book even though it's not really a CS book, but it still has a lot of interesting stuff about computers and electronics in general.
I can't wait until the artificial intelligence course. I already had the professor for that course in another course and he was really cool in the course I had him in. There is one professor I have a lot of respect for as a computer scientist, but not as a teacher. You might think you would want to be taught by a l33t teacher, but the entire attitude doesn't make for a good learning environment, no matter how much the teacher knows. I'm glad that I have thus far been able to keep up and get through the courses I had with him without having to ask him a lot of questions. All my friends tell me they hate asking him a question because he makes them feel like a gnat and that their brain is about the same size. So, yeah, I respect him because he really knows his stuff, but I don't look forward to having to take his courses.
[ 20 September 2001: Message edited by: Muad Dib --formerly ndogg ]