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Computer Algorithms: Introduction to Design and Analysis (3rd Edition) |
Author: Sara Baase
Published: 1999-11-15 |
List price: $102.00
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 Like "Where's Waldo" but with variables.
This book contains some good information, but it's written in a pretty annoying fashion. As other people have noted, you'll constantly need to flip back (or forward) pages or whole sections just to figure out where a particular variable or function was defined. It makes the book confusing and time consuming to follow. I'd stick with Cormen's book.
 Terrible book
This book was required by my professor because he wrote it (Allen Van Gelder) and I must say it has been one of the worst academic experiences I have ever had. He seems to have some specific way to teach each concept, which takes away from the books ability to explain the fundamentals. In some cases, he talks about a certain type of tree without ever giving an example of that kind of tree. In other cases, he will talk about an algorithm only in terms of "changes" you would make to another algorithm, so that you never get to see the pseudocode for the algorithm you are trying to understand. The pictures are nice, but they would be so much more effective if everything was just explained clearly to go along with them.
Do not buy this unless you need it for a course
This book is not very clear, skips steps, and in general wanders around. This is one of the worst computer science books I have read. Unfortunately I had to buy it for a class; so unless you find yourself in a similar position, don't buy this book.
 Readable algorithms book with lots of good information
I don't quite understand all of these negative reviews. This is a solid text for algorithmic analysis that for the most part is at just the right level for most students -- neither too theoretical nor too superficial for the important topics. The graph algorithms material is a nice improvement over the earlier edition. I've used this book as an instructor many times and most serious students have found it to be an effective complement to the material presented in class.
Terrible, don't buy unless required
I had to buy this because my instructor wrote this book and homework assignments were from the book.
The whole book is designed very poorly and I remember having to flip back and forth just to read it straight forward. Let me clarify. As an example, I would be reading a paragraph that refers to page C, so I would go to page C and that page C refers to page A, etc. It was just painful to try to understand what this.
Today (after 5 years later), I use this book as an example of how not to write a book.
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