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Knuth Releases Another Part of Volume 4
junge_m writes "Donald Knuth has released another of his by now famous pre-fascicles to Volume 4 of his epic:
Pre-fascicle 2c is all about 'Generating all Combinations' supplementing his pre-fascicles 2a and 2b.
Furthermore he challenges us all to do more of his daunting exercises and report our success. He thinks we are way too lazy in this respect! So come on slashdot crowd: Do your homework and get the credit from the grandmaster himself!"
Let me guess... You're a CS Master Of Science student or graduate who take pride in having the ultimate hashkey algo memorized to the last bitshift. I'm a CS student myself, but I recognize this for the uninteresting stuff it really is (unless of course, you're planning on doing/doing actual research on this stuff).
Programming is a craft dependent on experience and routine. Sure, knowing your big-O might come in handy when you need to make a kick-ass algorithm; but this has probably already been done by somebody else.
Flashing your l33t CS skillz is going to get you nowhere when you don't know the Nintendo Graphics API (tm) and I do, and spend all my time making Zelda while you're still trying to implement the ultimate sort() and forget about structure and testing.
To quote a slashdot quote : "Fluid dynamics is to plumbing as science is to programming."