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Do you know of an alternative resource over this one?

everybodyknows 8y ago
MIT online catalog: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
- 52-6F-62 8y ago
  It's great they release all of this for free. I mean, it will never be the same as having that piece of paper from MIT— but at least one can rely on the resources as being quality.
  - gumby 8y ago
    I'm glad to see you write this. When MIT launched OCW (thanks to Hal Abelson, of SCIP fame) I was shocked by the number of articles amazed that MIT would give away their "Crown Jewels". MIT's position was precisely yours.
mesaframe 8y ago
There is one course from CMU not exactly same but is along the lines https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3J0oaFux3aafQm568blS9blxtA_EWQv https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3J0oaFux3aafQm568blS9...
bjourne 8y ago
Kleinberg and Tardos book: http://www.cs.sjtu.edu.cn/~jiangli/teaching/CS222/files/materials/Algorithm%20Design.pdf http://www.cs.sjtu.edu.cn/~jiangli/teaching/CS222/files/mate... But that book is not an easy read either and will be hard to digest for someone not comfortable with reading mathematical proofs. It comes with the territory.
- weaklearner 8y ago
  This is not a TCS textbook. This is core algorithms. Source-TA ing an algorithms course with tardos
  - bjourne 8y ago
    Perhaps you only covered the first part of the book? Chapter 8 and beyond are definitely about theory.
    - weaklearner 8y ago
      That's true. Good point. Also I really like this book. It's just not really what I think of when I think of theory.
wk_end 8y ago
Sipser [1] is the standard and deservedly so. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_the_Theory_of_Computation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_the_Theory_of_...
- ashton314 8y ago
  Used this book in my CS course. Loved it. I felt like it was clear and well written.
zerr 8y ago
There was a course on Udacity.

MIT online catalog: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

52-6F-62 8y ago
It's great they release all of this for free. I mean, it will never be the same as having that piece of paper from MIT— but at least one can rely on the resources as being quality.
- gumby 8y ago
  I'm glad to see you write this. When MIT launched OCW (thanks to Hal Abelson, of SCIP fame) I was shocked by the number of articles amazed that MIT would give away their "Crown Jewels". MIT's position was precisely yours.

mesaframe 8y ago

There is one course from CMU not exactly same but is along the lines https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3J0oaFux3aafQm568blS9blxtA_EWQv https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3J0oaFux3aafQm568blS9...

bjourne 8y ago

Kleinberg and Tardos book: http://www.cs.sjtu.edu.cn/~jiangli/teaching/CS222/files/materials/Algorithm%20Design.pdf http://www.cs.sjtu.edu.cn/~jiangli/teaching/CS222/files/mate... But that book is not an easy read either and will be hard to digest for someone not comfortable with reading mathematical proofs. It comes with the territory.

weaklearner 8y ago
This is not a TCS textbook. This is core algorithms. Source-TA ing an algorithms course with tardos
- bjourne 8y ago
  Perhaps you only covered the first part of the book? Chapter 8 and beyond are definitely about theory.
  - weaklearner 8y ago
    That's true. Good point. Also I really like this book. It's just not really what I think of when I think of theory.

wk_end 8y ago

Sipser [1] is the standard and deservedly so. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_the_Theory_of_Computation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_the_Theory_of_...

ashton314 8y ago
Used this book in my CS course. Loved it. I felt like it was clear and well written.

zerr 8y ago

There was a course on Udacity.