Sean Kelly schrieb:
> BLS wrote:
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>> btw :I wonder wether Sedgewick is still using tons of academic terms (means showing how clever he is) or is he meanwhile able to produce some output a human-beeing can read.
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> I find Sedgewick to be quite readable, but his material is a bit more technical than some of the other texts.  I personally like this because it makes for good reference material, but if I were teaching the subject I might choose a book that doesn't jump into the middle of things quite so quickly.
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> For comparison, my wife took an algorithm analysis course recently that used Weiss' Java book.  She found the descriptions in it confusing, but thought my 1st ed. C++ copy of the same book (same topics but much longer) was excellent.  So I'd be inclined to recommend Weiss except his recent editions don't seem as clear as his earlier editions, as a result of some heavy editing to reduce page count.
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> I wish I could suggest others, but aside from Knuth those are the only algorithms books I've actually kept.
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> Sean
Thanks for your inside view.
What I am able to figure out from your message(s) is that reading Sedgewick still requires time and some++ background knowledge,while Weiss (at least in his most recent book) : Algorithm Analyses is somewhat weak, or let's say the didatic part is weak .

Regarding Weiss : I hope we are talking about the same book :
I mean Data Structures and Problem Solving and *not* Data Structures and Algorithm Analyses.
Anyway, your informations are very usefull for me. Thanks a lot!
Regards Björn