Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Resource?

Re:Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Res... by epelesis on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:22PM (#22292270)

I'm taking Jeff's 473 class right now and if you like his writing style, all of his lectures for both algorithms classes he teaches are online as videos - it can be a good companion to the textbook if you want worked examples. [my video] links should be raw MP4's that are not password protected.

374 (Introduction to Algorithms Videos): https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs374/fa2019/A/schedule.ht...

473 (Algorithms Videos): https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs473/sp2020/lectures.html

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Re:Ask HN: How Sound Is the “Teach Yourself CS” Learning Res... by eru on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:50PM (#22296153)

Thanks! I don't really like videos for math-y content, but I have recommended his books to people who will definitely appreciate the videos.

Btw, I tried to reach out to Jeff for a linear time solution to an exercise in the chapter on matroids in section 8.2. It's about 'Scheduling with Deadlines', and his best solution is O(n log n).

But alas, I never got a reply.

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