The Art of Computer Programming

A comprehensive monograph written by Donald Knuth which covers many kinds of programming algorithms and their analysis.

I have looked through these books but haven't read them. There are mixed feelings about them in the computer science community. Some say they are great books and some say they are not. What I have noticed is that Vol 2 (on semi-numerical algorithms) is more usefull than other ones.

The book uses a very weired non-existing assembly-like language. that's why some don't like it. I am not a computer scientist so I didn't have to use it.

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By the way, I don't think this is the right word to use when you are talking about stealing other people's work.

Read the reviews on Amazon.com and you will see the readers have contradicting opinions about it.

Regarding the copyright, I agree that $160 is too expensive but what it takes to write such a book and the fact that only a few copies will sell so the prices of highly technical books are very high.

I am surprized that the Shiraz university library doesn't have it