Introduction to Algorithms

[Zaei]

Not exactly a C++ question, but I trust the people here to give a more accurate opinion thing =).

Good book? Worth getting?

Thanks.

Z.

[jim mcnamara]

I've taught the course. It's not a bad book, but students didn't like Cormen very much. They though it was too abstracted. -- If that's the book you mean. But that was the first edition.
Edition 2 or 3 is out now.

If you have patience, Knuth's 3 volume 'Art of Computer Programming' is more accessible. And it's the basis for the whole field anyway. It's just REALLY BIG. Took me several months to work all the way through. In the new version he references MIX, an assembler you can download if you want. Which is better than the old version which I first read - ALGOL, WATFOR III, pseudocode, or assembler.

[Zaei]

Yeah, that is the book Im talking about =). Abstracted? As in, more theory, then code?

Z.

[jim mcnamara]

Yeah - they wanted code examples with a little theory sprinkled in. Not what they got -- it was a more rigorous mathematical approach.

It's considered the best modern book for CS majors. I was was teaching in a CIS curriculum thoough.

[parksie]

Originally posted by jim mcnamara
If you have patience, Knuth's 3 volume 'Art of Computer Programming' is more accessible. And it's the basis for the whole field anyway. It's just REALLY BIG. Took me several months to work all the way through. In the new version he references MIX, an assembler you can download if you want. Which is better than the old version which I first read - ALGOL, WATFOR III, pseudocode, or assembler.

Isn't volume 4 expected at the end of this year sometime?

[Zaei]

Originally posted by jim mcnamara
Yeah - they wanted code examples with a little theory sprinkled in. Not what they got -- it was a more rigorous mathematical approach.

It's considered the best modern book for CS majors. I was was teaching in a CIS curriculum thoough.

Sounds like exactly what I am looking for =).

Thanks.

Z.