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Algorithms in C, parts 1-4 Robert Sedgewick Format: Paperback, 716pp Pub. Date: December 1998 Publisher: Addison-Wesley ISBN: 0201350882
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A disciple of Professor Knuth-knowledge leaps from every page. Dave R.
Exceptional love for fine detail of highest quality. There are many books about algorithms, just a few can impress and influence people acting on the very threshold between theoretical research and development of complex software. Robert Sedgewick codes very carefully. Some readers might even fail to recognize the fine details in his code. Try to analyse even the simplest 2-3 liners. Compare the program 4.5 (Linked list implementation of a pushdown stack) or 4.10 (FIFO queue linked list implementation) to similar examples given by lesser authors, figure out the the percentage of redundant code given by others compared to this examples (it is 50% to 300% faster for this elementary cases!). Thomas H.
If you want to debug authors code for free, this is the book for you. However, considering that it is third edition already and errors are still there, the author probably won't care much if you correct it anyway. Or does he? Yes, I was frustrated, wasting two hours of beautiful Saturday morning on scraping supposedly impeccable code. Oleg P.