Same here. I was toward the end of an associate's degree in programming and finding Knuth Vol 1 in the library stacks felt like discovering there was a whole co

Same here. I was toward the end of an associate's degree in programming and finding Knuth Vol 1 in the library stacks felt like discovering there was a whole continent of intellectual effort where I'd only seen a tiny neighborhood. It helped motivate me to go get a BSCS. But 40 years later, I've still only dipped into it from time to time (I did buy my own copy :))