I wonder why AIMA far more popular. As a beginner to AI, I was recommended to read AIMA but I found AI: Foundations of Computational Agents, to be far more appr

I wonder why AIMA far more popular. As a beginner to AI, I was recommended to read AIMA but I found AI: Foundations of Computational Agents, to be far more approachable. Now, I use AIMA as a very useful reference but for a beginner, AIMA isn't the best choice, pedagogically speaking.