<p>I’ve never really been one to buy textbooks. my first semester I only bought the math book because I needed the code for the online assingments. Needless to say we never once used the book itself. I did buy a spanish book as well, just because I don’t see how you can pass a foreign language class without the book. Last semester however I didn’t buy any books and I did just fine. Today all my teachers really stressed that without the books you won’t do well in the class so i’m probably going to buy them, but only if I can find them for cheap prices. I’ve already found one for 25 dollars.</p>
<p>The Syllabus should tell you if you’ll need the book or not. If you see a lot of required reading and class discussions based on said readings AND the teacher mentions that he’ll be doing pop quizzes based on the readings, you might wanna by that book.</p>