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I'm just saying, those books are impossible to read cover to cover.
by lwat 15y ago
I'm just saying, those books are impossible to read cover to cover.
- TheNewAndy 15y agoI've read volumes 1-3 cover to cover (I even picked up a cheque along the way). I wasn't reading for maximal knowledge retention (e.g. I would rarely do any of the exercises, though I would read them all and think about how I would solve them), but now I have a pretty good idea of what is in there and what isn't.
- Someone 15y agoI think that heavily depends on one's prior education. I found them a fairly easy read. It's just applied number theory :-)
- lwat 15y agoThey're not meant to be read cover to cover, the same way you would not read a dictionary cover to cover. Knuth himself even says so in book 1.