learnerburner

Re:Ask HN: Help me choose the best first book for Algorithms on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @10:36AM (#10041345)

I have some results and there seems to be a consensus for Sedgewick's. There was a course on Coursera mentioned.

Close second is Kleinberg's and Skiena's.

TOACP and CLRS apparently are considered reference reads and not starting material.

I think I know pretty much where to start. Thank you all.

Re:Ask HN: Help me choose the best first book for Algorithms on Monday August 10, 2015 @10:07PM (#10038710)

Are Sedgewick and Kleinberg on the same level? So if I do one can I skip the other and move to say Algorithm Design Manual or CLRS?

From your comment it seems Knuth's book(s) to be the last (and for the mastery.

Ask HN: Help me choose the best first book for Algorithms

Posted by learnerburner on Monday August 10, 2015 @09:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am a programmer and no formal CS knowledge. I have the following books on the topic Algorithms/DataStructures. Can you please help me pick the first one to start so that I am able to get up to the speed. It will be great if you can specify an order as well.* The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven S Skiena Link: http://amzn.com/1848000693* Algorithms (4th Edition) by Robert Sedgewick et al....

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