By developing concepts through motivation, the author made this book easily readable for all students with as little as a calculus sequence background. This, in fact, is the whole reason I bought the book. I needed a book where I can self-learn many basic topics of real analysis. So if you want painted a clear picture, go for this book. The only reason this book didn't get 5 stars is because the problems, which are good problems, did not provide hints to more of the challenging ones. Taking this course with others could turn that perspective very different, though. All in all, good book.