Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!mojo!eng.umd.edu!clin From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Chien-Hong Lin) Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: seeking advice on good book Message-ID: <1991May28.002455.15605@eng.umd.edu> Date: 28 May 91 00:24:55 GMT References: Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Reply-To: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Chien-Hong Lin) Distribution: comp Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 21 I'm probably not the right one to be posting a response to this, but I have time, so why not? There's Design and Analysis of Algorithms by Aho, Hopcroft, and, Ullman. It reads OK. Usually taught in a computer science class. Requires some background (a little set theory, etc). There's a book called Algorithmics. Not as much on specific algorithms, but talks about it at a general level. Appears to be geared to non-CS folks. There's a new book called Introduction to Algorithms or Algorithms (can't remember which), and the only author I recall is Rivest (there are three). This may be the book to get. It's new, and chock full of algorithms. Nice pictures too. -- ____ _ / | __|_| clin@eng.umd.edu | | | harles | in "University of Maryland Institute of Technology" | _| \_____/ |_|\___/