Mark Allen Weiss

The only programming book I have read cover to cover and my first real programming book. Excellent coverage of ANSI/ISO C89. Compiler/OS agnostic and no 3rd party libraries covered. C++ intro at the end.

I read this book when I want to fall asleep. Sure, it's technically good information, but it's also mind-numbingly boring.

Wow. This book really blew my mind. Has excellent chapters on trees, hashing and sorting. Still relevant, even in 2005. The concepts are useful regardless of the programming language--Weiss simply uses JAVA to implement the concepts.

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