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This was the book I used. It is more accessible yet interestingly some comments seem to characterize it as "beginner friendly" in a way that suggests it is less

This was the book I used. It is more accessible yet interestingly some comments seem to characterize it as "beginner friendly" in a way that suggests it is less canonical. Make no mistake, if you learn the material in Sedgewick well you'd be light years ahead of 99% of your peers. It likewise provides depth and foundations for things like leetcode, thus far the majority of leetcode problems I've done were toy versions of things covered in the book. On a more personal / subjective PoV, IMHO its just a much better book than the majority of the others. Its not as basic as Grokking Algorithms nor as interview focused as Cracking the coding interview. I would suggest the latter if you just want to be good at programming interviews.

bennysomething 5y ago
Interesting, I was working through sedgewick course on Coursera, I hit a bit of a wall, it seemed like one of the assignments was just really badly explained. However lots of other students were fine so it's probably me. I considered getting the grokking booking instead. What's the main difference between sedgewick and the grok algo book?
- carabiner 5y ago
  Do you remember which assignment? I did the first one, percolation and hooo boy, that was a trip. The problem statement buries the key library that you use for everything at the bottom of the page. Did get it eventually though.
  - bennysomething 5y ago
    Hi, yeah week 3 collinear points, I had to post a number of questions on the message board due to language being ambiguous. In the end I could only get 74 percent and I had no idea why. I spent hours and hours and hours on it. Yes percolation was a tough first assignment. Week two was linked lists and really straight forward. Also I found Sedgwick's explanations too terse, I ended up on YouTube countless times watching other videos that helped me get what he was saying. I think it's probably me though, it's a Princeton course so I guess it's aimed at the very bright!

bennysomething 5y ago

Interesting, I was working through sedgewick course on Coursera, I hit a bit of a wall, it seemed like one of the assignments was just really badly explained. However lots of other students were fine so it's probably me. I considered getting the grokking booking instead. What's the main difference between sedgewick and the grok algo book?

carabiner 5y ago
Do you remember which assignment? I did the first one, percolation and hooo boy, that was a trip. The problem statement buries the key library that you use for everything at the bottom of the page. Did get it eventually though.
- bennysomething 5y ago
  Hi, yeah week 3 collinear points, I had to post a number of questions on the message board due to language being ambiguous. In the end I could only get 74 percent and I had no idea why. I spent hours and hours and hours on it. Yes percolation was a tough first assignment. Week two was linked lists and really straight forward. Also I found Sedgwick's explanations too terse, I ended up on YouTube countless times watching other videos that helped me get what he was saying. I think it's probably me though, it's a Princeton course so I guess it's aimed at the very bright!