Jeff Erickson’s UIUC algorithms textbook, online for free, is extremely readable. I like it a lot. http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/ …?
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Here’s where I fell in love with it:pic.twitter.com/J9Tw9sz37x
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The problems are pretty great, and cover a lot of ground quickly.pic.twitter.com/Kk1uTC0nUp
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I feel like this stuff is so irrelevant to modern programming, where your real problems are users intentionally (or unintentionally) stomping on each other, more so than "I didn't write the correct magic algorithm"
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It’s too late for me, since I already, you know, learned how mergesort works and how to compute a minimum cost spanning tree, but, like, seems like good stuff to know?
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as a working programmer in my experience you will be lucky to write one "algorithm" per year. You know what they should teach? How to evaluate which of these 12 rando libraries / plugins will solve your problem best.
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yeah, with specific examples in the field, too
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