====== Textbook ======

You will require the following textbook for this course:

  * Mark Wickert, //Signals and Systems for Dummies//, John Wiley & Son, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-118-47581-2

You may purchase this book through the [[http://bookstore.yorku.ca|York University Bookstore]].

Prof. Wickert has written supplemental code useful for the course.  It may be downloaded from his book support page:
  * [[http://eas.uccs.edu/wickert/SSD/|Signals and Systems for Dummies (SSD) Code, Apps and More]]

Here he describes his rationale for writing the "for Dummies" book with Python instead of the more traditional Matlab:

  * [[https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CD4QFjAGahUKEwjL1NmPwbXHAhUFTZIKHWOcAKc&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnipy.bic.berkeley.edu%3A5000%2Fdownload%2F5&ei=DKfUVcueHoWayQTjuIK4Cg&usg=AFQjCNFtbVcqmUqxkxQUiDovGQqWAP28wg&bvm=bv.99804247,d.aWw&cad=rja|Signal Processing and Communications: Teaching and Research Using IPython Notebook]]