Calculus for beginners What  resources for "Calculus" do you recommend for beginners; they should describe the topics in a way  easy to understand?
 A: Another very helpful site is http://www.khanacademy.org/. It has videos on almost any subject and they are only about 10minutes long. They are clear and easy to understand. Khan teaches the idea and does example problems. I use it all the time. 
A: Books:


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*Calculus by Michael Spivak

*Calculus by Thomas Finney

*Introduction to Calculus and Analysis, Volume 1 by Richard Courant and Fritz John

*Calculus, Vol. 1: by Tom M. Apostol

*A Course of Pure Mathematics by G.H. Hardy

*Elementary Analysis: The Theory of Calculus by Kenneth Ross
Online Resources:


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*There are lot of resources online like MIT OCW which provide material as well as problem sheets which you can work and hone your skills.


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*I got this video from youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbIQW0gkgxo
Hope this helps.
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A: Here is the first calculus resource I ever used: http://www.calculus-help.com/tutorials
I watched all of them around 4-5 years ago, and remember liking them.
It explains limits and the derivative in a very simple way.  I mean in a really simple way.  I doubt there is a more basic explanation around.  If this is your first time ever looking at calculus, I would definitely give this site a try. (If you feel your mathematics is University level, maybe just skip it)
Hope that helps,
A: A very complete book I recommend is Calculus from Ron Larson.
The explanations are very clear and intuitive. However, it is not very concise.
A: For the complete beginner to calculus, the kindle book "Get your head around: Basic Calculs I" by Austin Hartnell-Jones is a pretty gentle introduction, and takes time to explain things using very simple language: 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Your-Head-Around-Calculus-ebook/dp/B074HP82R4
The book "calculus made easy" by Silvanus Thompson is quite old but actually very easy to read, full of intuition and insight, and a good introduction if you have some basic algebra/geometry. I think its out of copyright and you can get a free copy from project gutenberg (there are also newer reprints available quite cheaply on amazon etc.)
Some online video resources that are fantastic for learning calculus are the Khan academy (mentioned already by Ania) and the MIT online video courses (can find them also on youtube):
Single variable:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01-single-variable-calculus-fall-2006/video-lectures/
(there are also further excellent MIT video courses on multivariable calculus, but better to start at the beginning). 
