<p>I'm going to be taking Calc I &II as a high school senior, and was wondering if the book is going to be something I am going to want to keep and use as a reference later on. I should mention that I plann on going into either an engineering field or physics. The title of the text is STEWART
CALCULUS: CONCEPTS & CONTEXTS. Any thoughts would be great.</p>
<p>i kept my book and notes just in case i needed a refrence in college</p>
<p>I have to say that that is the book that I used in my Calc II and III classes as a freshman in college. I plan on keeping mine around, though I'm not completely sure yet that I will need it.</p>
<p>I also took Calculus in high school (I'll be a senior this year!) and used a different book by Stewart (I think it was called Calculus: Early Transcendentals). Overall, I thought it was okay, but I mostly relied on my teacher's lectures to learn the material, as the explanations were sometimes a little confusing. </p>
<p>Personally, I still have it with my other textbooks, but don't use it very often. I feel pretty confident solving problems and if I need a formula or something, Google is usually faster :)</p>
<p>I highly recommend keeping your Calculus book.</p>
<p>dr_reynolds, why would you recomend keeping it. I've read some of your other posts and you seem to know what you are talking about, but i'm just curious what for and where it will be used later on.</p>
<p>I sold my book...I don't recommend you keeping it because:</p>
<p>1) Calc books are cheaper (especially if you buy older editions)
2) You can look stuff up in the internet</p>
<p>the only math book I kept was my Linear Algebra and Diff. Eq bost</p>
<p>I recommend keeping it as well. I've used it as a reference a number of times in my engineering studies. Stewart sounds very familiar; it may have been the book I used in my BC calc class, and it was quite good compared to the one I have from my college calc course.</p>
<p>I recommend keeping your Calculus book because you'll use Calculus in a number of future classes. Plus they typically are a good reference for trig relations and other math concepts that might be forgotten. It's handy to have it around...at least it was for me.</p>
<p>Calculus books are very expensive doorstops. But yeah, it's not a bad idea to keep them. Though I'm not fond of Stewart (or any calculus book, they all suck to some degree, but are useful, if you stay in science/engineering).</p>
<p>...Expensive doorstops that you've already bought.</p>
<p>I keep all my science/engineering books, and I still use the majority of them. The twenty bucks you may get from reselling your books at the end of the term isn't worth it for the familiar resource you'll get to keep.</p>
<p>I defintiely agree with aibarr. One of my friends at another college started off not keeping her engineering books and it ended up not working too well. In future classes, she would call me for help on a problem, and I would keep referring to an old textbook of mine, since I don't remember everything. </p>
<p>I've looked on the internet for reference sites to use, but none of them can come close to replacing a textbook (not taking subscription sites into consideration).</p>
<p>Keep it.</p>
<p>Its always nice to have for reference and if you do take higher level math classes (especially as an engineer) you won't have the proper training that a mathematician has; its handy to be able to review proofs and fundamental math concepts.</p>
<p>Although I personally did not keep any of my math books (except Complex Analysis since I have a hard time selling it for a decent price lol), I'd say it might be a good idea to keep your calc book. But I don't think it would be any great loss if you did sell it. Higher math courses generally has a small review section in the beginning anyways, and a lot of prof do some light reviewing at the beginning of a course. </p>
<p>I do however highly recommend you keep all of your engineering books, you WILL refer back to them later.</p>
<p>and was wondering if the book is going to be something I am going to want to keep and use as a reference later on (...) The title of the text is STEWART CALCULUS: CONCEPTS & CONTEXTS.</p>
<p>Stewart's calc text was used in my first-year calc classes in engineering school. If you keep it, you may get a chance to use it again.</p>
<p>Over my 4 years in an engineering program, I did actually pull the book out and refer to it, although only a handful of times. The difference it made to me was not having to go to the library. Of course, the alternative was selling it for a fraction of its value - maybe half. I vote keep it.</p>
<p>...and when you go off to graduate school and live three miles from campus and are trying to dredge up vague recollections of the chain rule, it's even more handy... especially if your dumb grad school library isn't open past midnight.</p>
<p>I kept ALL my engineering and science and math books, and I catalogued all my notes and papers from college and grad school when I was down and out with pneumonia for three weeks and highly drugged and feeling a little bit nuts, and I can't even begin to express how glad I am to still have all that stuff. It took forever to drag it all up to my office at work, but given five or ten minutes, I can re-learn whatever odd bit of material I need for whatever I'm working on.</p>
<p>It was absolutely priceless in grad school, too, where your courses tend to include bits and pieces of every other course you've taken. It's just really nice when you can't walk a block to the library to figure out whatever's bugging you, to have your own personal library at home.</p>