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This book is the reference material for an outstanding online course on coursera. The material is almost verbatim identical to what he taught in the online class, which was really great stuff! The only downside of the book is that on kindle version th...  Read More

Compared to many other algorithmic books, that are math intensive and obtuse, these are to the point, easy to read and peppered with a lot of examples that help in understanding the nuts and bolts of the algorithms. The book is itself incredibly usefu...  Read More

Third level inspiration was his direct-to-the-essence minimalist philosophy. Things get simple after you know the essence and only in this way can you hold more.

Professor roughgarden's books go the extra mile to make this learning as easy and painless as possible. Finally got this one on my book shelf next to the knuth and cormen. Arrived on time and as promised.

Professor roughgarden provides a greatest hits survey of the most important algorithms. Includes big-o notation and asymptotic analysis. Examples are well chosen to illuminate the algorithms as advertised. As the title says it is about illustrating th...  Read More

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I teach two computer science algorithm courses and while happy with the classic textbooks think that all students and many prof...  Read More


Together with the learning videos on youtube these books have become my goto repositories for algorithmic understanding


If i could do it over i would start with the prereq material namely math for computer science

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  • This product had a total of 414 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 13 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    How dare you start this series at 1 and not at 0


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    The book is for you if you prefer reading to video


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    If you like a recipe book there are better books


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    So this wont be the only book you will need for algorithms as the professor himself claims


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    First of all the content is serious they are concise but they are not surveys


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    Before reading these books it might be helpful though perhaps not absolutely necessary if youve already learned something about the most basic linear data structures like arrays and linked lists


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    I quickly realized that i remembered less than i thought i had


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Support for this will be very helpful for nonmac and nonpc users as there is no kindle app support for them

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