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Are you seriously claiming that you have read both TAOCP and CLRS cover to cover? This is precisely the claim that the original article is talking about. The
by sireat 10y ago
Are you seriously claiming that you have read both TAOCP and CLRS cover to cover?
This is precisely the claim that the original article is talking about.
The article is not claiming that TAOCP and CLRS are bad books. The article simply argues that more people claim to have read the books than actually have read them.
Most of us have read "some" of TAOCP and CLRS.
These are fantastic but rigorous reference works. Generally you do not read reference books cover to cover
- OskarS 10y agoI read most of both of TAOCP and CLRS when I was in my late teens and early twenties. I couldn't follow the most difficult mathematical bits, but I don't think it's THAT unusual to have worked through most of both of them.
- damontal 10y agoTAOCP has four volumes. Its not just a single book. Did you work through all four volumes?
- OskarS 10y agoThe first three. Fourth wasn't out back then.
- Retric 10y agoIn high school read/studied Ivan Hortan's beginning C++ one summer which what an awesome foundation for collage programming courses. Now, I thought it as well worth it and recommended that book to several people. But here is the thing it took most of a summer, and I stopped around page 700 or so. Further I am not recommending someone read it, I am suggesting they spend a few months studding C++. TAOCP is not a book it's 1/3 of a masters degree in paper form. Suggesting someone read it is like sugesting they get a MS useful, bit not quite the same as recommending a normal book.
- bigtunacan 10y agoYou are taking your personal experience; that apparently you do not read reference books cover to cover and then applying it to others. Personally I DO read reference books cover to cover on a regular basis. I understand not everyone does this, but I don't make judgements or assumptions of others based on this. I'm have almost an obsessive need to read these things cover to cover. When I hit something I don't understand I reread it until I do or I go look up related materials until I understand it.
- FabHK 10y agoTrue. I'm just reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover, very informative. Just arrived at the chapter on cheeseparing, cheese rennet, cheese renning, and cheesesteak - fascinating, and very useful in my day job.
- fooker 10y agoHeretic! Go back to the basics and learn about the mighty aardvark.