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You're not the only one. If we're honest most of us buy the series as a mark of status / pride, not out of any plan to actually read it. I mean yeah I do plan t
by radicalbyte 4y ago
You're not the only one. If we're honest most of us buy the series as a mark of status / pride, not out of any plan to actually read it. I mean yeah I do plan to. Probably once I've retired. But that's a long way away :-)
- leereeves 4y agoI use it more like a dictionary. I don't read it from start to finish, but if I need an algorithm for something, I look it up in Knuth.
- jpgvm 4y agoThis is the function my copy of TAOCP serves. I'm not anywhere near knowledgeable enough to digest all of it, but when I need something and I want to understand the ground theory behind it then to Knuth I go.
- User23 4y agoMy most recent use of it was to convince my team that binary search is in fact not a good interview coding question. It's surprisingly tricky and Knuth explains exactly why!
- lokedhs 4y agoThe part where he explains how a binary tree can be unbalanced, and when, was really surprising to me. Never assume that just because your accesses are random that the tree will remain balanced on average.
- kragen 4y agoConsider also CLRS.