I've watched this course online, and it's a great one. A few random comments: * It is a good idea to download the course materials from http://ocw.mit.edu/ans

I've watched this course online, and it's a great one. A few random comments: * It is a good idea to download the course materials from http://ocw.mit.edu/ans15436/ZipForEndUsers/6/6-046JFall-2005/6-046JFall-2005.zip http://ocw.mit.edu/ans15436/ZipForEndUsers/6/6-046JFall-2005... * The video lectures can be downloaded if you hack the URLs a bit. Full instructions at: http://amazingstuffs.blogspot.com/2007/10/download-data-structures-video.html http://amazingstuffs.blogspot.com/2007/10/download-data-stru..., but it doesn't bode well if you can't figure it out for yourself * The math gets significantly less heavy after the first few lectures. If you get lost, plow ahead and revisit the first few lectures after you've gotten further. * Erik Demaine rocks. He went straight to the top of my list of "computer scientists I'd like to have a beer with sometime..." * I found the discussions of Red-Black Trees and the graph theory "trilogy" to be especially enjoyable, but that could just be me.