Right, the greatest CS text in the world has graced the our house and our family is sure to churn out computer scientists for the next few generations.
If you still haven’t guessed it, I have purchased the first volume of “The Art of Computer Programming” by Donald Knuth, professor emeritus of the art of computer programming at Stanford University, receipient of the Turing award, creator of TeX and what not.
The book I have is a low price edition (the benefit of living in Asia) and hence I could get the greatest text of the century for a mere USD 10.6 .
The book is a masterpiece and I couldn’t help figuring out the enthusiast Knuth was. Right on the first page I saw:
“This series of books is affectionately dedicated to the type 650 computer once installed at the Case Institute of Technology, in remembrance of many pleasant evenings.”
I still don’t have volumes 2 and 3 and I will get them soon.
I was worried at first whether I would be able to understand the contents but it turns out that all I need to know to begin using the book is “in my head”.
Here are a few pics of this masterpiece.
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Its adventure time. I have an ebook on algorithms by Umesh Vazirani but its just so much fun to be able to hold a book and read it.
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Greatest?
I like
“Introduction to Algorithms” by Thomas H Cormen from MIT.
Thomas H. Cormen is from Dartmouth I suppose the only reason it sells more than Knuth’s book is that it uses some high level language. You might also like Vazirani’s “Algorithms”.
hmm…i was in the same position as you are a year ago..im from hyd too and doin cs at purdue…youre are going to like it here..especially the introductory cs course(java)..be sure to take cs180M..cheers!!
Congratulations!
Jack Alanen gave me volume 1 in 1971 when I got my PhD. It took me years to appreciate it, but now I’m proud that I still have this venerable copy. Fortunately I was wise enough to buy vol 2 and 3 immediately when I arrived in Waterloo in 1975. More recently I lagged, and don’t have any of the fascicles of vol 4 yet. I’m not sure whether combinatorial algorithms are so important for me. But I’m really amiss in not yet getting the mmix book of 1999.
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