Thread: Have you gotten through Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming?"

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    Have you gotten through Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming?"

    I am trying to read it, got the first 3 books for christmas. I am having some trouble reading through it. It's some pretty rough stuff.
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    Wait, there are more than 3 books to this? I've only ever seen the 3 in the store.

    And no, I've never read them and probably never will. They're definitely on my "list of stuff I wish I had time for", though.

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    Well, you can read preprints of portions of volume four: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html

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    >I've only ever seen the 3 in the store.
    Only the first three have been published.

    >Have you gotten through Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming?"
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    Yes, I've even done a large portion of the exercises.
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    I've never heard of it. But I assume these books are quite intense?

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