> Reading TAOCP is the least efficient way to learn about algorithms
"Learning the algorithms" isn't a binary checkbox. It's a gradient of thinking and math skills, ranging up to a researcher in the field. TAOCP is the only book I know if that will give you that depth.
Learning those skills is not for everyone, but can be extremely valuable, and open a lot more doors than graduating with a class of 10,000 other CS students.
> Can you share more about this, even IMO medalists go to undergrad first.
He was an "undergrad" whose first math class was graduate real analysis.
"Learning the algorithms" isn't a binary checkbox. It's a gradient of thinking and math skills, ranging up to a researcher in the field. TAOCP is the only book I know if that will give you that depth.
Learning those skills is not for everyone, but can be extremely valuable, and open a lot more doors than graduating with a class of 10,000 other CS students.
> Can you share more about this, even IMO medalists go to undergrad first.
He was an "undergrad" whose first math class was graduate real analysis.