Some of you have let me know that you do not (yet) have a copy of the required text for the course.  The book is available on amazon.com and it’s OK if you get an older edition of the book. 

This is a “sales pitch” about why you should get the book or at least make sure you have access to it long enough to read ALL OF IT once.

1.	It is a good text book. It has practical examples and good diagrams.
2.	The details provided in analysis (Chapters 6-10) and design (Chapters 14-18) won’t be fully available in the visuals.  We are now past the part of the book (Chapters 1-5) that you can easily “get by” without.
3.	You paid tuition to attend this course. The textbook provides part of the learning that you have already paid for.
4.	 It is too late for me to redesign the course around the assumption that you won’t have the book. 
5.	The final exam will be much easier if you have read the text book.

I won’t do anything on purpose to hurt you if you don’t have the book. However, I have concluded that it is beyond the scope of my job to “force” this course to work without the text. (Remember past lectures on the importance of scope control.)