A list of free programming books

Re:A list of free programming books by justin66 on Saturday October 12, 2013 @07:45PM (#6540872)

Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual and Kleinberg and Tardos' Algorithm Design are both very nice books. CLRS is very nice, and depending on your personal ethics the Solutions manual for the 2nd edition is pretty easily obtainable online, which might be useful for that despicable and highly discouraged activity known as self-study. Sedgwick's stuff is not bad.

I used Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman's two Algorithms books in class. They are old but extremely good. If you want to buy dead tree books they're available used for a very low price.

Hope that helps.

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Re:A list of free programming books by aviraldg on Saturday October 12, 2013 @10:25PM (#6541223)

So... recommendations for all the major books.

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Re:A list of free programming books by justin66 on Saturday October 12, 2013 @11:50PM (#6541434)

I can go into the strengths and weaknesses of each (I'm kind of a packrat...) but you haven't said anything about yourself or what you're looking for. If you really don't know what you're looking for you should just do what the majority of people here would tell you to do and get CLRS. It's not an accident that these are popular textbooks or that CLRS is the most popular.

(I didn't really mean to recommend Sedgwick's stuff. As I said, I just think it's not bad.)

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