So I went out to purchase books this afternoon. Here's a list of textbooks I'm using for my classes at Olin:
Purchased at Babson Bookstore:
Calculus by James Stewart
Purchased at Amazon:
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume 1: Mechanics by Richard P. Feynman
Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim
Given to me in class:
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python by Allen Downey (our professor!), Jeffrey Elkner, and Chris Meyers
(Modified from How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, published under the GNU license)
Purchased at Babson Bookstore:
Calculus by James Stewart
Purchased at Amazon:
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume 1: Mechanics by Richard P. Feynman
Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim
Given to me in class:
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python by Allen Downey (our professor!), Jeffrey Elkner, and Chris Meyers
(Modified from How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, published under the GNU license)