<p>I am a high school student in Hong Kong. And I plan to study in Foothill community college in California. Can anybody introduce some textbooks to me? so i can well prepare before my study. Some textbooks about mico-economic, macro-economic, mathematic, statistic, physics, chemistry, biology.</p>
<p>hmm...here are some of the textbooks I used</p>
<p>for Math:</p>
<p>Calculus II, III </p>
<p>Calculus 5th Edition - James Stewart</p>
<p>Linear Algebra</p>
<p>Linear Algebra and its Applications - David Lay</p>
<p>Differential Equations</p>
<p>A First Course in Differential Equations - Zill</p>
<p>Physics I, II, III</p>
<p>Fundamentals of Physics - Halliday</p>
<p>Chemistry I, II</p>
<p>Chemistry - Zumdahl</p>
<p>hi hokityejenny, I'm currently finishing up my 2nd year at foothill.</p>
<p>check out foothill bookstore's site:
<a href="http://books.fhda.edu/fhcbk/%5B/url%5D">http://books.fhda.edu/fhcbk/</a></p>
<p>fyi: different instructors use different books, even if the course is the same.</p>
<p>hokityejenny: if you want to prepare go to half.com and but the old editions of those textbooks....very cheap</p>
<p>luba: he was just asking about preparing for his courses...</p>
<p>luba: your bookstore has the same format as my schools book store:
<a href="http://bookstore.elac.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://bookstore.elac.edu/</a></p>
<p>i guess they are both run by the same company.</p>
<p>Foothill student reporting in.</p>
<p>Different professors use different books. HOWEVER, if you want to really be ahead, then identify the courses you will need for your major at Foothill, and then find out the professors you will be taking the classes with. On the foothill course search page, some of the class descriptions have links to the syllabus, which will tell you what books to use.</p>
<p>I just want to know the syllabus in the 1st and 2nd at foothill, and how difficulty they are? Can you give me some idea? and introduce some textbooks which i have mentioned to me?</p>
<p>I don't understand your question. There's no order to the classes you take (unless they're prereq), so saying 1st and 2nd does not help much.</p>
<p>Step 1: Choose your degree(s)
<a href="http://www.foothill.edu/programs/index.php#programs%5B/url%5D">http://www.foothill.edu/programs/index.php#programs</a></p>
<p>Note the required courses for them. Do not forget the General Education requirements either:</p>
<p>Step 2: Make an educational plan for yourself.</p>
<p>Decide which classes you are going to take and during which quarter. You can find out class availability here:</p>
<p>Step 3: Research for professors and ask for their syllabus.</p>
<p>With that schedule, find the class you want, and look at the details each has a professor's last name listed. You can usually go to the department the class is located in and locate the professor's e-mail address. Write an e-mail asking the professor for a syllabus.</p>
<p>I will take business for my major at foothill. As far as i know, i have to study general subjects in the 1st year such as: mico-economic, macro-economic, mathematic, statistic, physics, chemistry, biology. Is there any textbooks which are commonly used for general subjects.</p>
<p>Calculus I, II, III
Calculus 5th Edition - James Stewart
This one is used everywhere! My community college use it, many UCs use it! </p>
<p>My physics I, II
Physics for scientists and Engineers Volume I 6th Edition- Serway Jewett
Note: CALTECH use this same book for physics! </p>
<p>Differential Equations
Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems 8th edition (11 chapters) - William E.Boyce | Richard C. Diprima
Note: CALTECH use this same textbook as well! </p>
<p>Introductory Biology
Essential Biology with Physiology - Campbell | Reece | Simon</p>
<p>Other Subjects:
Normally depend on the preferences of the professors so other general courses books vary a lot!</p>
<p>What is your major, Jenny?</p>
<p>You can just buy them all in hk. International edition is much cheaper than USA edition.</p>
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<p>I will take business for my major.</p>
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Can you introduce to me some textbooks which I have mentioned above, and which one I buy in Hong Kong.</p>
<p>For business: You basically need to fulfill the IGETC (consisting of many general courses where you can choose for yourself), and the following should be your lower division courses:</p>
<p>-2 accounting courses
-2 economics courses (macro + micro)
-first year of calculus (some schools require this; some don't)
-1 statistic course </p>
<p>Those courses I list above should work for majors: Business administration, accounting and so on...</p>
<p>I personally have known some international students who are also majoring in business administration, economics, or accounting and from discussion regarding majors, the major is not hard, as long as you study hard, you would get good grades. Besides, you DON"T have to suffer in hardcore sciences like physics or organic chemistry or differential equations. Therefore, just take it easy... i bet you would do well in the U.S. school.</p>
<p>About the textbook, i'm not sure why you are concerned about them too much. May be because of financial reason... or whatever reason that is; they are always available at least in the school bookstores! If you want to learn about the difficulty of the courses, if you could do beyond algebra stuffs, you should not have much trouble in the major of business. Again, statistics, accounting and economics are not that hard; they might be little tricky but again, they are not that hard!</p>
<p>As far as I know, different instructors use different textbooks. Are the examination paper the same in the same course? even though they have different instructors.</p>
<p>different exams for different instructors... Jenny, don't worry too much! You would do fine! :)</p>
<p>Yeah, don't worry too much. CC's calculus course are picece of cake. My calculus 1 and 2's teacher set all the exam questions from the examples of textbook. LoL</p>