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YES! Thank you for this clarification. I personally enjoy thinking about the implementations, instead of looking at the code itself. Knuth makes that easy (har
by amackera 17y ago
YES! Thank you for this clarification.
I personally enjoy thinking about the implementations, instead of looking at the code itself. Knuth makes that easy (hard?) by not spoon feeding you.
Plus the typography of Knuth's books is so wonderful. It's a pleasure to read.
- michael_dorfman 17y agoI'll also add that I usually recommend that newcomers begin with Volume 4, and turn to the earlier ones later. I think that for many people, skipping the preliminaries, and starting with an interesting and relevant topic (combinatorial algorithms) gives more immediate pleasure than beginning with the lower-level underpinnings.
- tjr 17y agoReaders might also consider Knuth's "Concrete Mathematics" as a substitute for the more-or-less equivalent material in Volume 1, especially if a little more help is needed in understanding it.