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Re:Best algorithms book I ever read by tedunangst on Monday August 22, 2011 @11:15PM (#2915186)
um, why? It seems perfectly reasonable to me that examples written in C could be troublesome to someone who doesn't know C.
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Re:Best algorithms book I ever read by ntoshev on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @02:35AM (#2915608)
I don't think anyone can forget pointers though, except in Winnie the Pooh way.

Also, anyone learning data structures should know pointers or at least references as a prerequisite. You can't reason about efficiency in data structures knowing only the high level comfort of Python.

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