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I googled "red book" and found one by Jung, and one by Mao. I tried adding "computer science" and got one on relational databases, and one on OpenGL. If knowi
by ken 8y ago
I googled "red book" and found one by Jung, and one by Mao. I tried adding "computer science" and got one on relational databases, and one on OpenGL.
If knowing "the red book" were so important to Google, you'd think they would make sure their own search engine knew how to find it.
I have no idea which book they're referring to. For red computer science books, the only ones that come to mind are Numerical Recipes (probably not a Google favorite), one version of Appel's compiler book (not really an algorithms book), and perhaps the old edition of AIMA (though on further inspection, it's more brown).
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- threatofrain 8y agoI think the red book is the Robert Sedgewick book, but there are any number of well-known textbooks for intro to algorithms.
- stone-monkey 8y agoHuh - I would've guessed Algorithm Design Manual by Skienna. I have no idea which book the red book is supposed to be either, but I did read the Steve Yegge blog post about getting a job at Google in which he recommended reading it. Since that Yegge article is also used by Google recruiters as a resource for interview prep (according to Yegge), seemed natural to assume Skienna.
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- mianos 8y agoThe Robert Sedgewick book. It is an excellent book. All the cool kids have a red one. Mine was blueish purple and in pascal. LOL, I'll never get a job at Google.
- ahussain 8y ago"red book algorithms" will get you there