i am a beginner at algorithms. i was checking ACCU and this one caught
my attention:
"Introducti on to Computing and Algorithms" -- Russell Shackelford
had anybody read this book ?
i want to mention that academic books never made any sense to me. i
know Knuth's books are best out there. i never read his books
actually, except Concrete Mathematics.
i have also heard "Sedgwick" is academic too. i expected so as he
studied under Knuth.
another example of academic books is "How to Design Programs" [1]. i
have that book on my desk and i tried to get "introducti on to
programming" through it (the purpose of the authors was introduction
to programming) and after reading 11 chapters, i did not make anything
out of that book.
same way i tried "The Little Schemer" as introduction but that too was
thrown into my "Hate'em" list. [2]
guess, from where i got my introduction to programming: from 2 places
1.) How to think like a computer scientist: learning with Python.
(this was a minor intro) [3]
2.) "Practical Common Lisp" (this one had major impact on my
thinking) [4]
i like and understand books written in "Practical Common Lisp" style.
K&R2 is a different style i love it too :-)
so "Practical Common Lisp" and "K&R2" are 2 of my understood and loved
styles.
long post, sorry....
still the question remains:
have you read "Introducti on to Computing and Algorithms" -- Russell
Shackelford
?
-- arnuld
[1] http://www.htdp.org/
[2] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/
[3] http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/
[4] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
my attention:
"Introducti on to Computing and Algorithms" -- Russell Shackelford
had anybody read this book ?
i want to mention that academic books never made any sense to me. i
know Knuth's books are best out there. i never read his books
actually, except Concrete Mathematics.
i have also heard "Sedgwick" is academic too. i expected so as he
studied under Knuth.
another example of academic books is "How to Design Programs" [1]. i
have that book on my desk and i tried to get "introducti on to
programming" through it (the purpose of the authors was introduction
to programming) and after reading 11 chapters, i did not make anything
out of that book.
same way i tried "The Little Schemer" as introduction but that too was
thrown into my "Hate'em" list. [2]
guess, from where i got my introduction to programming: from 2 places
1.) How to think like a computer scientist: learning with Python.
(this was a minor intro) [3]
2.) "Practical Common Lisp" (this one had major impact on my
thinking) [4]
i like and understand books written in "Practical Common Lisp" style.
K&R2 is a different style i love it too :-)
so "Practical Common Lisp" and "K&R2" are 2 of my understood and loved
styles.
long post, sorry....
still the question remains:
have you read "Introducti on to Computing and Algorithms" -- Russell
Shackelford
?
-- arnuld
[1] http://www.htdp.org/
[2] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/
[3] http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/
[4] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
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