<p>Next semester I'm going to be taking Calc I. The semester after that I'm going to take Calc II.</p>
<p>The class requires the 6th edition of a Calc textbook that we have at the library. My bro has the 5th edition. The prof said that the problems differs from edition to edition.</p>
<p>Is it a bad idea to just use my bro's version and scan/print (free @ my school) the pages we need? I don't mind spending a whole day printing things at the lib that I'll need in the future.</p>
<p>Or should I waste my money and just buy the textbook?</p>
<p>every college student is low on money. problems you might face are that the pages don't correspond, problems are different, and the missing material might not be accessible. I would find a copy of the new ed. and compare it to the old. From there you can decide what to do. Calc's already tough, don't make it tougher if the old ed is a hassle.</p>
<p>I highly recommend just buying the textbook. Using an old edition can make it extremely difficult to follow the class syllabus and assigned problems. It will be worth the extra money to just buy the new textbook.</p>
<p>copying all the problems would be a big hassle. I always have problems with the spine area showing up too dark. You don't really know the exact problems you could be doing (syllabus might change) and then you'd have to worry about keeping the pages together and not loosing them. You'd also probably want to copy the answers in the back, and it would end up costing you a lot of money. I really recommend buying the correct book; The school might buy the used Calc book back. If you want you could check ebay or another site like that or see if your school has a used book forum to buy one from another student.</p>
<p>Check first, and if they're too different, just buy a new one, take very good care of it, and sell it for a decent price. Copying the answers is too big of a hassle for the reasons OKgirl listed above.</p>
<p>Someone in my class did just that - copied the relevant chapters and the problems. She seemed to do fine. </p>
<p>I guess this also depends on your professor. Will s/he be assigning book problems to be turned in for credit? If so, then it'd probably be a better idea to buy the correct edition. If problems are just assigned and not due, then I wouldn't worry about having the correct problems because they're all pretty similar anyway, and you can just do practice problems on your own (I wouldn't be surprised if many overlapped).</p>
<p>Edit: Also, take into consideration the professor's teaching style. I only needed my calc textbook for the problems for my Calc II class because my instructor laid out the information in a very straightforward and easily understandable manner in class. If your professor is hard to understand, then consider buying the newer edition.</p>
<p>buy the book. If they are using a new edition this semester, chances are they aren't going to go with a different one next semester as well. You can sell and get some money back.</p>
<p>You don't want to have to rely on the chance that no one at the library has taken the books out on reserve when you need them.</p>