======Math 527 suggested textbooks======
  * D. Zill //First Course in Differential Equations with Modeling Applications//. Brooks/Cole.
  * {{http://ramanujan.math.trinity.edu/wtrench/texts/TRENCH_FREE_DIFFEQ_I.PDF | Elementary Differential Equations}} by William Trench, a free online textbook.
  * M. Braun //Differential Equations and their Applications//, Springer-Verlag. 
  * Boyce & DiPrima //Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems//, Wiley

The bookstore is selling Zill's textbook, 10th edition. However, ** you are not required to 
buy this book.** Any edition of Zill will do. In fact, any textbook on differential equations 
written in the last thirty years will cover the same topics (perhaps with different notation, 
but you should be capable of adjusting for that). I do strongly suggest that you obtain a 
textbook, study it, and keep it for future reference.

If you use another text, you should be able to find appropriate readings by matching the 
lecture topic to your text's table of contents or index, with the following hints
  * M 1/27: "1st order linear" might also be called "integrating factors" or "variation of parameters"
  * W 2/21: "judicious guessing" might also be called "undetermined coefficients"