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Re:50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Second Edition) by wyclif on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @03:35AM (#38851950)
That's because Packt, unlike O'Reilly titles, are the shovelware of the programming textbook market. They have a pretty sorry business model. Lots of copypasta-style content slapped up into a book, then sending free copies of the book in exchange for reviews.
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Re:50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Second Edition) by bradley13 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @08:25AM (#38853765)
I wondered about that. I just looked at the table of contents, and there is far, far too much stuff in this book. Either it is 2000 pages long (it's not), or it is incredibly superficial.
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Re:50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Second Edition) by zerkten on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:11PM (#38856565)
They will take on literally anyone as an author. Authorship gets you kudos in the increasingly large segment of programmer influencers.
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