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Re:Ask HN: How do I choose the right resource to learn CS fu... by frogger23123 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @01:42PM (#21923305)
> + The foundation of computer science is Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Everything else is footnotes.

The foundation of computer science would be the work done by the likes of Alan Turing and Alonzo Church. They established foundations of CS before Knuth was born.

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