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Return to Book Page. The bible of all fundamental algorithms and the work that taught many of today's software developers most of what they know about computer programming. I have pored over them in cars, restaurants, at work, at home You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

I find that merely opening one has a very useful terrorizing effect on computers. Elementary applications are given to simulation, numerical methods, symbolic computing, software and system design. Dozens of simple and important algorithms and techniques have been added to those of the previous edition. The section on mathematical preliminaries has been extensively revised to match present trends in research. Get A Copy. Hardcover , Third Edition , pages. Published July 7th by Addison-Wesley first published January 1st More Details Original Title.

Art of Computer Programming. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Does anybody know approximately how this book's difficulty level might map to a university curriculum?

Is it difficult because of the math level, or just many more concepts being covered? I heard you can skim through parts of it and have it still make sense David I'll take a stab at this: I think TAoCP is difficult only because it might be hard to see the forest for the trees - or rather for the pretty pattern …more I'll take a stab at this: I think TAoCP is difficult only because it might be hard to see the forest for the trees - or rather for the pretty pattern of the bark of one of the trees.

Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Mar 20, David rated it liked it. At first, I enjoyed this dense and scholarly volume. Knuth's dry humor is peppered throughout the book, but pops up most frequently in the first few chapters. It seemed at odds with the negative and adoring opinions I'd read about the book. I was told by Knuth in his introduction that I could skip as much of the math as I liked.

So I dutifully skimmed through the math chapter and continued. Then I hit MIX. It's the theoretical computer to which all of the program examples in the book will be w At first, I enjoyed this dense and scholarly volume.

It's the theoretical computer to which all of the program examples in the book will be written - in assembly language. It's interesting and clever and Please understand that I have read Knuth's defenses for using assembly language to teach his algorithms. I understand them. And they make sense. Is it important to understand how a linked list works in memory?

Does worrying about the housekeeping of a fictional computer designed in the s aid in that understanding? Absolutely not. Certainly that would be an improvement. But I still feel a higher-level language or a formaly-defined pseudocode could show all of the lower-level concepts without the drudgery of assembly. Let's move on from the assembly example issues and talk about the content of Volume One.

For all of the words and symbols, very little ground is actually covered! By the end of Volume One, you'll only have learned about lists stacks, queues, deques, etc. Which is not to say those aren't fruitful structures ripe for thorough examination - certainly they are, and Knuth examines them thoroughly.

It's just to say that the pace is utterly glacial. In other words, and it pains me very much to say this, it's difficult to justify the time required to get through a book like this if you don't enjoy the MIX assembly puzzles or the higher math problems. I appreciate this incredibly thorough and accurate work the way I appreciate models of large gothic structures created with toothpicks.

But while the toothpick model can be enjoyed at a glance as a piece of visual art, The Art of Computer Programming can only be appreciated with careful study. It's really quite difficult to put a star review on a single volume of a some day five-volume set of astoundingly thorough scholarship. In some ways, I don't even feel worthy of reviewing the thing. I'll be perfectly honest, the only "useful" using an extremely loose interpretation of that word thing I actually remember from Volume One is how to use a pair of stacks to efficiently simulate a FIFO queue.

That's a pitiful statement considering the amount of time I put into reading the thing. I own the three-volume set published before Volume 4A came out. My understanding is that the books get more interesting later on. The titles do sound interesting.

But I can't get past the fact that they're going to be chock full of more MIX examples and exercises in higher math. It's going to be a while before I work up the stamina to crack the next one open. View all 4 comments. Mar 30, Charles rated it it was amazing. Feb 02, Warren Mcpherson rated it liked it Shelves: closer-to-the-machine.

This book outlines the design of computers and shows how many of the challenges of programming development have been addressed. It is a great and foundational computer science book.

Today, understanding the operation of the processor is less critical and the way data structures are used has somewhat evolved. The math and assembly programs gave critical insight into practice and optimization at one time, however are less relevant now.

Programmers who read it will still love this book. It was a nic This book outlines the design of computers and shows how many of the challenges of programming development have been addressed.

Click here to sign up for The Art of Computer Programming Newsletter , which features updates on new editions and promotions. At the end of , these books were named among the best twelve physical-science monographs of the century by American Scientist , along with: Dirac on quantum mechanics, Einstein on relativity, Mandelbrot on fractals, Pauling on the chemical bond, Russell and Whitehead on foundations of mathematics, von Neumann and Morgenstern on game theory, Wiener on cybernetics, Woodward and Hoffmann on orbital symmetry, Feynman on quantum electrodynamics, Smith on the search for structure, and Einstein's collected papers.

These volumes are now available also in portable electronic form, using PDF format prepared by the experts at Mathematical Sciences Publishers. Special care has been taken to make the search feature work well. Thousands of useful "clickable" cross-references are also provided — from exercises to their answers and back, from the index to the text, from the text to important tables and figures, etc.

Warning: Unfortunately, however, non-PDF versions have also appeared, against my recommendations, and those versions are frankly quite awful. A great deal of expertise and care is necessary to do the job right. If you have been misled into purchasing one of these inferior versions for example, a Kindle edition , the publishers have told me that they will replace your copy with the PDF edition that I have personally approved.

The ePUB format may be just as bad; I really don't want to know, and I am really sorry that it was released. Please do not tell me about errors that you find in a non-PDF eBook; such mistakes should be reported directly to the publisher.

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Babenko and Iu. Baiakovskii, edited by K. Babenko, and V. Japanese translation, under direction of Takakazu Simauti, in two volumes:. Translations of the third edition: Russian translation by S. Trigub, Yu. Gordienko, and I. Krasikov, edited by S. Trigub and directed by Yu. Kozachenko, Iskusstvo programmirovaniia , T. Polish translation by G. Jakacki, Sztuka Programowania , T. Macedonian translation Skopje: Prosvetno Delo , in preparation.

Russian translation of Volume 1 Fascicle 1, by Yu. Gordienko, edited by S. Polish translation of Volume 1 Fascicle 1, by G. Translations of previous editions: Russian translation by Galina P. Belaga, and L. Maiorov, edited by K. Translations of the third edition: Russian translation by L.