Re: anyone here recommend Skiena's The Algorithm Design Manual?


TheGist wrote:
While the Corman, Leiserson, and Rivest book is widely popular as an
advanced undergrad/intro grad textbook how does Skiena's The Algorithm
Design Manual stand up? Would anyone recommend it over CLR or merely as
an additional reference?

I have it.

I like it.

The format is very different from other algorithm books. Each
algorithm is accompanied by a story of some kind.

There is also an accompanying web site at Stonybrook.
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/

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