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An approachable book on algorithms
- tptacek 16y agoThis is not very approachable. I highly, highly recommend Skiena: http://www.algorist.com/ http://www.algorist.com/ Skiena has much, much more content on the motivation behind algorithms and algorithm selection than other algorithm books. It also dives headfirst into graph traversal, which "Algorithms-in-C"-type books tend to leave for the end of the book. Other decent algorithms books are CLR (http://j.mp/91SqgE http://j.mp/91SqgE), which looks pretty on my shelf but I never use, and Knuth, which I find works better as literature than as a reference, but highly recommend anyways. Avoid Sedgewick.