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Thank You. I have the 3rd edition and have often wondered whether i should look at the earlier editions for some insights; maybe i should hunt down a cheap use
by rramadass 5y ago
Thank You.
I have the 3rd edition and have often wondered whether i should look at the earlier editions for some insights; maybe i should hunt down a cheap used copy to add to my collection.
- tzs 5y agoOops...it turns out I didn't quite get the early history right. The first edition was in fact called "Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing". The book I have, "The Science of Computing" is the trade edition [1] of that, published one year later. The trade edition has "carefully modified to reflect the slightly less technical background of a typical reader". The structure and much of the text remained the same but some passages were rewritten and "several of the starred subsections that appeared in small font in the original edition have been eliminated". Those often contained proofs and other more mathematical things. [1] an edition of a book intended for general distribution, as opposed to a text edition which is an edition of a book prepared for use especially in schools and colleges.