Book List

Each Course has a required textbook and sometimes a recommend book. If your curious about what book it is you can look at either the course listings for the semester:

http://www.testudo.umd.edu/ScheduleOfClasses.html

or by reading the course description and syllabus here (although textbooks differ by professor)

http://www.ece.umd.edu/Academic/Under/uc_idx.html

Rarely does a professor use his own lecture notes as the textbook, and if that is the case they still assign problems from the textbook. This often leads to all your money being spent in the beginning of the semester being spent on books; although some books are worth keeping in your collection and selling back.

Course	Book
ENEE244
ENEE303/307
ENEE322

These books are some of the few, excluding some math books, that I have and will keep. They were beneficial for the courses and serve as excellent reference books.

The digital logic textbook has been a huge resource and was my motivation for writing this blog. I was looking back through it as review and realized how rich its content is.

For 303/307 (the upper level circuits class and lab) is an excellent resource and is how I learned about memory circuits on my own. Although depending on who teaches the course you don't need the most up to date version as Newcomb assigns his own hw and uses the book as reference only. In that case get an older edition for less money.

I can't say enough how much I used the signals textbook throughout the semester. Not only were the chapters easy to read and understand, but the more difficult end of chapter problems served as great examples of exam questions (I even found some taken exactly from the book).