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The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms (Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science and Information Processing)

The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms (Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science and Information Processing)
Customer Review: Very effective introduction to algorithms
The book used in my graduate Intro to Algorithms course, and I think the follow-on. While I am obviously not as well read in this subject as many of the other reviewers, I can say "it worked", and indeed worked well. A course that has a weak text or teacher will not inspire... A-H-O/DACA and Prof. Carlson made the material exciting, even to an "architecture guy". My interests in grad school in the early 80's revolved around tessellation automata (aka systolic arrays and other highly regular compute structures) and big steaming fast computer structures. A-H-O provided me with the best understanding of the kinds of problems faced by the computers which interested me the most, and the kinds of tools needed to understand computational impact and algorithmic structuring of solutions to them. I sincerely with I hadn't lost my copy with the hundreds of annotations in the margins.
Customer Review: still the classic
One of the classics -- a readable and practical textbook with dozens of problems and projects. Great as a reference to basic data structures and algorithms, too!
