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"Aside from the main point of this article, could anybody recommend a good algorithms/data structures book?" Skiena's "Algorithm Design Manual" or Kleinberg
by plinkplonk 13y ago
"Aside from the main point of this article, could anybody recommend a good algorithms/data structures book?"
Skiena's "Algorithm Design Manual" or Kleinberg and Tardos's "Algorithm Design" or Sedgewick's "Algorithms" for folks with little/no math. I mildly prefer the last.
Once you have some math under your belt (say worked through Knuth's Concrete Mathematics), Sedgewick's "Analysis of Algorithms" or even Cormen et al. The problem with the latter is that it is too big to work through comprehensively and knowing what to leave out is somewhat tricky.
Speaking of which, has someone ever worked through Cormen comprehensively? I sometimes think I should take two months off from work for a "desert island" holiday and put in the work to do this. (I started once and was making progress but got interrupted and never went back).