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The Art of Computer Programming Reading Group
- aamar 16y agoReading group from 2005. The author comments: Not surprisingly, after a very short period of time, this fell to the wayside. The page and schedule are left up for anyone who has interest in their own push through TAoCP. Anybody care to comment on whether the pacing seems appropriate?
- kksm19820117 16y agoI suspect this might have been easier to accomplish without taking on the exercises. I'd try going through the texts first, gaining some understanding, and then follow it up with some serious exercise crunching whenever I felt like it. That way, I at least gain a theoretical understanding of the stuff - enough to understand what some CS papers talk about.
- abeppu 16y agoI recently saw Alex Stepanov quoted recommending TAoCP to his students, saying "It is something that they should keep studying for the rest of their lives." While that might be excessive (volume 3 is still less than 40 years old, right?), I think a year sounds short.
- baddox 16y agoWhat does it mean to say you "don't have time to get a computer science degree"? Like, have you been diagnosed with a chronic disease? When you go to college you generally want to be "all in," to the extent that often you actually won't have time for a job or for socializing.
- cma 16y agoStart with this (a more realizable goal): http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Computer-Science-Language-Information/dp/1881526917 http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Computer-Science-Language-Inf...
- stewars 16y agoThe pace seems too fast to me. Working through some of the exercises should be attempted and these are not your typical textbook exercises.
- Jun8 16y agoReading all volumes of TAoCP from cover to cover is probably unnecessary, it's reference material mostly. Also, the pace of "just over 34 pages a week" for such heavy material is insane.