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A comment on Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals of CS.

Re:Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals o... by kindalost on Thursday December 09, 2021 @10:25AM (#29498361)
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals o... by Karsteski on Thursday December 09, 2021 @10:28AM (#29498410)
Oh I know Donald Knuth from the Lex Fridman podcast. I am noting that it was written in 1994. Would any problems result from this?
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Re:Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals o... by pvg on Thursday December 09, 2021 @10:32AM (#29498469)
No but it's a maths textbook more than anything else. Not really a starting point for the sort of thing you're describing.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals o... by ogsalmanxx on Thursday December 09, 2021 @10:32AM (#29498470)
It’s a fundamentals thing, you will have to practice it a lot before it clicks and becomes practical for you to use on a daily basis.

But it won’t help you land a job at a startup, for that you need to learn JavaScript or C++

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