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TAOCP is the encyclopedia of algorithms. It is usually not something you read front to back. I have so far found 1-2 references that I could otherwise not deco
by treffer 4y ago
TAOCP is the encyclopedia of algorithms. It is usually not something you read front to back.
I have so far found 1-2 references that I could otherwise not decode, plus wanted to know about n-way sorting.
And that's how I would recommend to use it. I have it on my shelf to pull it out if I have to. Which is rare but it does happen. And as such it proved value to me, on the job, as I know how to get into these things as needed. But it has a similar insane price to usefulness ratio as an encyclopedia.
What I've done so far? Everything from Sysadmin to DevOps to Engineer (data heavy) to SRE to Data Engineer.
If you want to learn DSA then you should probably start with something that goes less deep, is less complete but covers useful algorithms from many areas.