<p>I'm going to study it over summer and then try to skip Calc AB to move straight from Pre-Calc to BC at school. Then I'll take both AB and BC AP tests at the end of junior year.</p>
<p>IMHO, the best Calc AB textbook is Single Variable Calculus: Concepts and Contexts 3E, by James Stewart. Serious, and it's not even that long (~600 pages), but very clear and thorough. It's easy to tell what you need to remember, and you can read it like a novel, but it's definitely NOT dense or wordy either.</p>
<p>If you're interested in BC also, I think this same textbook covers both. Chap 6 has some advanced methods of integration (trig & partial fractions), chap 7 is diffeq (and so has pop growth, logistic eq), and 8 is infinite sequences and series.</p>
<p>you cant take bc and ab the same year. collegeboard policy.</p>
<p>^WHAT!?!?</p>
<p>That's so gay.</p>
<p>If you take the BC exam you get an AB subscore, so it doesn't matter.</p>
<p>PR is not that bad as a review book. So is Peterson's. Don't get Barron's unless you're confident in what you are doing. Though it has A LOT of practice problems, it has a lot of typos that can throw you off if you are fuzzy on the formulas.</p>
<p>Okay, cool.</p>
<p>I really like Calculus by Larson, Edwards, etc...very good, not that long, if your self studying you can skip few sections,though, especially for BC</p>
<p>PR SUCKS for AB. It is near impossible to determine what is AB and what is BC.</p>
<p>What about Salas? I heard its more clear but also harder. (How does that work?) I'm also trying to selfstudy AP Calculus BC but I can't decide between Stewart and Salas! ><</p>
<p>Well, I'm studying with Apostol...</p>
<p>Is the amibiguity factor between AB and BC the only thing that sucks about PR?</p>
<p>I prefer Calculus by Foerster, very concise but goes in depth with nice problems.<br>
i wouldn't recommend it for self-studying though...choose a more accessable text for that.</p>
<p>Petersons.........</p>