Timeline for How do people read big technical books?
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| Aug 30, 2016 at 17:36 | comment | added | Little Alien | Knuth has lively style but it is impossible to read. Just because the learning curve is so steep. It would be much effective to unfold the full-blown story himself instead of condensing the matter into the thick booklets and forcing the students to invent the missing theory between the every step in it. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 14:47 | comment | added | Dhaivat Pandya | Introduction to algorithms. | |
| May 4, 2011 at 0:07 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by AstonJ | ||
| Nov 13, 2010 at 7:35 | vote | accept | NLV | ||
| Nov 9, 2010 at 9:37 | comment | added | Gary | +1 for observing that a textbook must present the information in a digestible format otherwise it's just wasted effort | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 7:05 | history | answered | user131 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |