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- From: jab@tellabs.com (Jeff Brooks)
- Subject: Are Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" books still worth reading?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.231320.12021@tellab5.tellabs.com>
- Keywords: Knuth books
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:13:20 GMT
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- I've recently completed my first couple of classed towards a Masters in CS
- and was told by one of my professors that Knuth's multi-volume set of books
- "The Art of Computer Programming" are THE classic computer science books.
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- My questions are, are these books still worth reading or are they outdated?
- The copy of volume 1 I found has a copyright date of 1973, so, should I
- just read them as a historical reference or is most of the technical content
- still applicable to today's programming methods?
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- Thanks in advance for your opinion or any other references that you can
- recommend instead.
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- --Jeff Brooks
- CS expert wanabee
-