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Essential Discrete Math for Computer Science

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If you are a math professor, considering using this book for a discrete math class, please, spare your students the misery and the money. My professor, with good intentions, assigned this book because it is cheeper than a traditional text book (still extremely expensive considering the book is very short and does not go into detail.) Most students in the class ended up buying an additional discrete mathematics textbook to supplement this one because this book did not explain most of the concepts in enough detail. I am studying for a test right now and the book is not helping me at all, especially since for a comprehensive discrete math course, my professor had to include in his lecture a lot of content not mentioned in this book.
Also, there was no CS prerequirement for this course, so the content of this book that deals with computer programing is off limits for the class and irrelevent and impossible to understand for me, a student with no background in computer science.
I would have prefered to spend the additional 40-60$ of the bat for a comprehensive well written discrete mathematics book, rather than waste $40-$50 on this one and have to spend $100 on another textbook to supplement the content.

After reading through this book although not very long and doesn't really get into great detail I feel that I now have a better understanding of some core concepts that will greatly improve the way I solve problems both mathematically and programmatically. I would suggest to this anyone that wants to broaden their knowledge in problem solving.