Agree with others that Barto & Sutton is dated, but it's not obsolete. I was chatting a couple weeks ago with one of Sutton's former students, who has since Ma

Agree with others that Barto & Sutton is dated, but it's not obsolete. I was chatting a couple weeks ago with one of Sutton's former students, who has since Made Good in both academia and industry working on AI, and he said that the B&S book is all you need to be able to read the literature, so it's still a good place to start. Apparently Sutton was going to do a second book, but has since retreated to a second edition. I'll take it though. :) The Barto and Sutton book is available online too, http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html although the printed copy is a high-quality publication so maybe worth it.