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Book:		Mastering Algorithms with C
Subject:		Mastering Algorithms with C Review
Date:		2000-06-20 07:27:15
From:		Breandan Goodall

Rating: I bought this book back in February of this year (2000) as some sort of remedy after having digesting far to many chapters and books on programming in Java. This book has proved the most useful text for my course (1st year B.Sc. in Computer Science) even though C has sadly been absent from it. I learned more from the few pages in this book about Big-0 notation than I had after a week of lectures on the subject. In reading the book you become aware of the writers obvious respect and pride in the algorithms being presented, and you will find that you too will appreciate what are the classic works of programming. The style and content of 'Mastering Algorithms with C' is very much like a digestible derivative of 'The Art of Programming' and should help in approaching that definitive tomb of volumes. I thoroughly recommend this book to any Comp. Sci. student that has any sense at all of the craft or any pride in generating code that not only does the job, but does it in the most concise way possible.