Comments on: The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set https://programmingzen.com/the-art-of-computer-programming-volumes-1-4a-boxed-set/ Meditations on programming, startups, and technology Sun, 11 Mar 2018 16:39:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Antonio Cangiano https://programmingzen.com/the-art-of-computer-programming-volumes-1-4a-boxed-set/#comment-29289 Sun, 11 Mar 2018 16:39:22 +0000 http://programmingzen.com/?p=1285#comment-29289 In reply to Jhelo.

Amazon and other large bookstores have it. Depending on where you live. Worst case scenario, there is eBay.

]]> By: Jhelo https://programmingzen.com/the-art-of-computer-programming-volumes-1-4a-boxed-set/#comment-29279 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 01:27:14 +0000 http://programmingzen.com/?p=1285#comment-29279 Where can i buy these? Also, can it be shipped?

]]> By: Ollie https://programmingzen.com/the-art-of-computer-programming-volumes-1-4a-boxed-set/#comment-20581 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:12:27 +0000 http://programmingzen.com/?p=1285#comment-20581 I bought the first two volumes recently, started reading it and can’t wait to get my hands on the excercises! 🙂

I will have to buy the volume 3 and 4 later on.

]]> By: Tjp https://programmingzen.com/the-art-of-computer-programming-volumes-1-4a-boxed-set/#comment-20528 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:37:42 +0000 http://programmingzen.com/?p=1285#comment-20528 It would be very cool if they published Volume 4A along with a bigger mostly empty box to replace the box of those that already have a Vol 1-3 box set.

New publishing idea!!!! Just Do It!

Tjp

]]> By: Paul Robinson https://programmingzen.com/the-art-of-computer-programming-volumes-1-4a-boxed-set/#comment-20518 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:29:15 +0000 http://programmingzen.com/?p=1285#comment-20518 This is the sort of book a well-rounded programmer should have, the way any doctor or especially surgeon should have “Gray’s Anatomy” but I fear too many of us – and I’m sure that includes myself too – lack the mathematical discipline or background to use it. But current market trends tend to discourage continuing education even though it is despirately needed. Fundamental theory – which is what Knuth deals with – will last forever, it is the basis for all software engineering and development, but technical skills and programming languages, will be seriously out of date in ten years or less and obsolete in 20. Is anyone – with rare exceptions – using the same languages and tools they did in 1991? Isn’t much of what we are using now based on tools and techniques that were created after 2001? Yet if you do a sort the method is probably quicksort from the 1970s, and standard mathematical formula such as sine, cosine, tan, log and so forth go back to the original discovery of the algorithms back in the 1960s or earlier, probably going back to the original hand calculations from hundreds of years ago.

]]> By: Antonio Cangiano https://programmingzen.com/the-art-of-computer-programming-volumes-1-4a-boxed-set/#comment-20512 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:37:36 +0000 http://programmingzen.com/?p=1285#comment-20512 In reply to Alex Cavnar.

Alex, if you had a decent mathematical background, I would probably recommend to start with Concrete Mathematics (by Knuth himself) and Introduction to Algorithms. They are both rigorous books, but gentler than TAoCP. If you need something more introductory though, you may want to start with a textbook on discrete mathematics and proceed from there.

]]> By: Alex Cavnar https://programmingzen.com/the-art-of-computer-programming-volumes-1-4a-boxed-set/#comment-20511 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:27:07 +0000 http://programmingzen.com/?p=1285#comment-20511 I have the first two volumes of this work, and would love to get the other two. But, I didn’t come from a mathematics background. I wind up getting lost in all of the equations. Can anybody suggest a good introduction math text that might help me dip my toes into this work?

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