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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by dctaflin on Thursday April 16, 2020 @10:31AM (#22889734)
I used his books as a way to learn the things about computer science that I missed out on by not having a CSci degree. They are very mathematical, but that's just a bonus for me. They are certainly not light reading.
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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by commandlinefan on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:56PM (#22891856)
> I missed out on by not having a CSci degree

I have a BS & MS in CS, and most of the material in TAOCP was still new to me. Even the stuff I thought I knew like hash functions was covered in a new depth I never would have imagined.

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