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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 00:15:22 No.51014664 View Reply Report Delete

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Ok /g/, why is this book so good in your eyes, and what do you suggest I do to get through it? Have the feeling it's rather dry.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 00:18:03 No.51014695 Report Delete

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You could start by reading it.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 00:24:32 No.51014789 Report Delete

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>>51014695

t-t-t-t-t-thanks anon

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:06:47 No.51015301 Report Delete

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>>51014789
This book was recommended at my school, but I never gave it a read. But seeing your thread made me grab it, thanks.

From the reviews I've read, although it's said to be accessible for every level, it tends to be written more for the mathematician.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:11:43 No.51015368 Report Delete

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>>51014664
algorithms are a meme
no one is going to care whether you use quicksort or insertion sort
all of them are already implemented if you use any non-obscure programming language
This is why people who go to coding bootcamps are better at programming than people who spent 10 years getting PHDs. Because they don't waste time circlejerking over big O and turing machines but actually work on practical things.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:13:22 No.51015394 Report Delete

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>>51015368
tech interviews are mostly about algorithms

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:48:43 No.51015805 Report Delete

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>>51015368

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:55:02 No.51015876 Report Delete

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>>51015368
The perfectionist aspires for the most efficient code.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:58:13 No.51015912 Report Delete

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>>51015876

He never said you can't use quicksort. He said you can use a library to implement it. You can make use of something without knowing how its internals fully work.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:58:41 No.51015924 Report Delete

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>>51015368
This isn't true if you're doing anything halfway complex or original.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:59:26 No.51015933 Report Delete

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>>51015368
the code monkey speakth

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:59:50 No.51015937 Report Delete

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EVRY YEAR

EVERY FUCKING YEAR SOME SMART ALECK CS FRESHMAN DARES TO QUESTION PATTERSON & HENNESY OR GANG OF FOUR OR DRAGON BOOK OR CLRS LIKE HE KNOWS ANY BETTER

FUCK YOU ALL

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:59:59 No.51015939 Report Delete

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>>51014664
Its dry as fuck, you get through doing some of the excercises (not those in the first chapters ofc)
>>51015368
L
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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 02:01:01 No.51015951 Report Delete

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>>51015368
Believe it or not, some of us do work more complex than web dev and CRUD apps. Proper algorithm choice can mean the difference between solution and non-solution to a problem. And god forbid you might ever have to work on a problem that nobody has previously solved for you. Dumbass.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 02:02:47 No.51015971 Report Delete

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>>51015301
No its not. The math is easy as fuck in that book. Most you need is like undergrad probability.

Typical code monkey who can't do math smh

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 02:03:14 No.51015977 Report Delete

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>>51015368
>>51015912
>itt these kids who think quicksort is just immediately the best.
>they dont know about radix sort, the oldest, best sort for more than 1000 items.

Go compare a "proper" radix sort against quicksort on 1 million items. It should be about 10* faster.

The radix sorting code in quake 3 is "proper", I'm not sure about radix sort from anywhere else... i've seen some "radix sort" implementations that were really shitty.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 02:25:24 No.51016236 Report Delete

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>>51015971
This tbh.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 05:42:34 No.51016489 Report Delete

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>>51014664
Given a set of lines, how quickly can you tell me if two intersect. If your answer is O(n^2) you should probably get the book. It's not to read. It's a reference.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 06:11:07 No.51016743 Report Delete

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>>51015933
kek

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 06:25:43 No.51016864 Report Delete

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>>51016489
In what form are the lines given?

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 07:40:12 No.51017431 Report Delete

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>>51015368
you are a meme

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 07:41:39 No.51017444 Report Delete

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>>51014664

do you guys think this book would be actually interesting for a new undergrad with 10 months of internships? or is it too basic?

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