Best algorithms book I ever read

Re:Best algorithms book I ever read by losvedir on Monday August 22, 2011 @09:10PM (#2914871)

I bought this book on Yegge's recommendation as well, and this actually was a stumbling block for me at first.

"Whyyy is this variable, ★★p a pointer to a pointer?! p is never referenced in the function, so why are we two levels of indirection down?!" I didn't realize at the time that pointers are copied by value in C, so in order to modify the pointer you need to give the function a pointer to it.

I guess it was worthwhile, though, because it encouraged me to play around with C[1] a bit in order to grok it.

P.S. Sorry for those stupid stars, HN kept eating my highlights. Any way to avoid that?

[1]https://gist.github.com/661564

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Re:Best algorithms book I ever read by michaelcampbell on Monday August 22, 2011 @09:34PM (#2914955)

Indent your "code" with a few spaces.

    int **p; /* I used 4 spaces in front of "int" */

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Re:Best algorithms book I ever read by losvedir on Monday August 22, 2011 @11:22PM (#2915202)

Ah, thanks. I was hoping there was an inline way, but I guess this will have to do.

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