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1. Computability and Unsolvability
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4. Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals - Standalone Book
INCLUDES the connect online code
5. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
- MIT Press MA
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6. Effective Java
- JavaScript Jquery
- Introduces core programming concepts in JavaScript and jQuery
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- Parents can customize the laptop to help their child spell their name
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9. Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
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- 2-2/5-cubic-foot refrigerator with adjustable thermostat control
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Took it last spring.
The first third of the course covered basic logic stuff in a very pedantic way. The homework and notes are on OLI and are pretty much the same as Logic and Proofs (80210 i think).
Second third was about set theory stuff and incompleteness.
Last third was about Turing and undecidability, this was the text: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486614719/
As someone who struggled with 251, I didn't find the material here particularly challenging. It's definitely the least rigorous of the CS logic electives. The first midterm was online, second midterm was half online and half in class, final was in class. I believe the 2nd midterm and final were curved pretty generously
Side note: the lectures are in the potato chip lecture hall in Scaife which gets so unbearably freaking hot in the spring semester I almost dropped the class because of it.
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Super easy to fly and tons of fun!
We are using Mathematical Thinking: Problem Solving & Proofs 2nd Edition. We get lectures notes because the text book is difficult to understand, but they dont really help..
EDIT: I realize now its the same book! Great! Any help?
Just wait until you get on campus and go to your first class to purchase any books for that class. Then you will know for sure whether or not you really need the textbook instead of spending a lot of money now on a textbook you won't use at all. You won't be at a disadvantage either since you will probably not use the book at all for the first few weeks anyways, giving you a lot of time to get the right book if you really need it.
If you MUST get a book now, the textbook that most algebra and calculus classes use is Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals (Amazon here). The demand is very high for this book so if you buy it now and find out you don't need it you could sell it to some other freshman very easily.
Easiest case is just to wait until you really know what book your class uses and if you really need it or not.
I would highly recommend reading this book.
My brother is a CTO of a tech startup and he used it to practice for his coding interviews at Amazon and Facebook, and still references it when interviewing candidates today. It lays out a great timeline for long-term preparation for coding interviews.
Josh Bloch is co-teaching 214 this fall, and he wrote the book on Java programming, so it might be a good experience to take it with him.
If you're looking for an easy-to-use convertible laptop/tablet with a nice keyboard, look no further: https://www.amazon.com/LeapFrog-80-600900-2-in-1-LeapTop-Touch/dp/B06XNQDR8J
I live in an apartment near campus. I read the Pittsburgh water report when I moved in and immediately bought one of the water filters that goes on your sink faucet. The free lead test from Pittsburgh would have taken several weeks and sounded really inconvenient - they drop off bottles outside your building, you have to get them and fill them and leave them to get picked up - I wasn't sure how that would work in an apartment building. The other option for testing is buying your own test kit, but a quality test kit is more expensive than a quality filter, and, based on reviews, a lot of them aren't all that accurate. (although also consider that the filter will need to be replaced periodically - in the long run, it is more expensive than a test kit)
For anyone who doesn't want to read the report, Pittsburgh (14.8 µg/L in 2015) is just under the level at which a city is supposed take action for lead (15 µg/L). So, not technically awful, but kinda scary. Hence my filter :) I got this one. It was $20 and well-reviewed by Consumer Reports.
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Organization-Design-Interface-Architecture/dp/0123747503 Is that the one you were referring to when you said "undergrad version"?
I have this one I'm looking to sell closer to graduation.