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Donald Knuth is actually a great writer and teacher. Try Concrete Mathematics instead of TAOCP, it is a shorter and easier introduction: http://amzn.com/0201558
by egonschiele 11y ago
Donald Knuth is actually a great writer and teacher. Try Concrete Mathematics instead of TAOCP, it is a shorter and easier introduction: http://amzn.com/0201558025 http://amzn.com/0201558025.
It is humorous and it includes notes from past students in the margin. I really enjoyed it.
Shameless plug: I wrote an illustrated book on algorithms that aims to be an easier read than TAOCP, CLRS and others: http://amzn.com/1617292230 http://amzn.com/1617292230.
- mjcohen 11y agoNot available yet.
- egonschiele 11y agoThe first chapter is here: https://manning-content.s3.amazonaws.com/download/4/b78a5a1-40c6-4577-a856-256d2fc30f5a/Bhargava_GrokkingAlgorithms_MEAP_V12_ch1.pdf https://manning-content.s3.amazonaws.com/download/4/b78a5a1-... (not the final formatting)
- rurban 11y agoI prefer the Sedgewick illustrations. Yours are targetting kids and is too verbose.