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I finished the other book [^] and it really was fantastic, but since it is only about 230 pages it did go fast and didn't cover quite as much as I wanted.
Also, I already started forgetting the things I read. I will go back and take notes, but I also wanted to read another but slightly more in depth. Not so easy to find.
I've been looking around and I thought I was going to read either:
1) Algorithms in a Nutshell: A Practical Guide 2nd 2016 (O'Reilly): Heineman, Pollice, Stanley Selkow[^]
However, I read the free introductory sample and they just jump right in and are not real clear.
Then I thought I'd read:
2) Algorithms 2011 (4th Edition): Sedgewick, Wayne[^]
I've been seeing that Sedgewick book for at least 20 years. I remember the old C++ edition and I've never been able to get far into it. I decided to try again and I read the long sample.
This book was so focused on every little detail of Java that it just burned me out on it.
I want someone to begin at the beginning of Algorithmic Thinking and go on from there. That's what the first (Pragmatic) book did.
This One
Well, I found another. It's longer than the Pragmatic one (goes into more depth, covers more topics) and is by a great author Rod Stephens:
Essential Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms Using Python and C#: Rod Stephens: 2nd ed. May 2019[^]
This has been very recently updated and uses C# and Python for examples (versus the Ruby  ) from the Pragmatic one.
So far I'm enjoying this one as much as the Pragmatic one and looks to be even better.
This is definitely step two on the way to algorithm learning.
Have you read it?
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No but i really should. A lot of what I learned was a trial by fire while making parsers and lexers (one of the reasons i like them is they use things like finite automata and push down automata and a lot of different styles of data structures)
The rest i've either picked up as i went or on the internet via various websites like geeks4geeks or the occasional video.
I have no idea who this man is, but he makes everything from complex data structure tutorials to advanced stuff like parsing and stuff beyond mere mortals like compiling tutorials.
LL(k) parsing - tutorialspoint[^]
He produces for TutorialsPoint and if you find him in your google search and you're okay with heavy indian accented english he's a great resource, IMO.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: I have no idea who this man is, but he makes everything from complex data structure tutorials to advanced stuff like parsing and stuff beyond mere mortals like compiling tutorials.
LL(k) parsing - tutorialspoint[^]
Interesting...and that is some very deep technical stuff.
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Yeah, but he's actually helped me over a couple parsing hurdles. The man seems to know everything. 
I'd be a bit intimidated working with him, I think - not that I'd hold it against him.
Real programmers use butterflies
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new record for highest temperature: 18.3C / 64.94F [^]
PETA, in collaboration with Greta Thunberg's YSMC "You Stole My Childhood" group, has started a fundraiser for a rescue mission for penguins with heat prostration: geodesic shelters will be erected all along the coastal areas where penguins congregate; they will have special solar-powered high-frequency sound emitters tuned to the pitch known to repel walruses and seals, but, for male penguins, said pitch has been shown to function as an aphrodisiac.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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A record readout for one weather station.
The average for the continent is still well below what most people would consider comfortable (heck, bearable) without a winter jacket, boots and gloves. Inland, it's still one of the coldest places on Earth, where temperatures below -60C are not uncommon.
Is the east coast still accumulating snow and ice faster than the west coast is melting?
(I may have east/west reversed, but my point stands)
Not being a denier. Just observing they still have better snowmobiling weather than we do here near Ottawa.
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You deny, then, that penguins are suffering ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Did I even mention anything about penguins?
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Penguins are quite essential in the discussion.
You may of course want to run another dialog where penguins are kept away from anybody's attention.
Or you may demand that in this thread with several participants, those that follow up your statement strictly limit themselves to whatever is on your mind.
If that principle is consistently followed, that no poster should bring in (or bring back) anything not referred to by the previous poster, the majority of threads would dwindle away almost instantly.
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dandy72 wrote: Did I even mention anything about penguins?
Now, you admit you are not even aware of penguins !
That is shocking, but, it is a first step to recovery, and I suggest you attend your local penguin consciousness raising twelve-step program to start the long and difficult process of rehabilipenguin.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Penguins aren't even all that tasty, so I can't bring myself to care too much about them...
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BillWoodruff wrote: You deny, then, that penguins are suffering ?
Nobody knows if they are, except for the guy who talks to penguins.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Nobody knows if they are, except for the guy who talks to penguins.
Do you question the sworn testimony of Penguin whisperers, then ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: Do you question the sworn testimony of Penguin whisperers, then ?
Nope, I question their sanity.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I understand that snowmobiling suddenly got better as of this afternoon? 
School buses cancelled, parking bans, etc all good signs.
Greetings from the West Coast where snow is fleeting, at least in the lowlying areas.
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RTek23 wrote: I understand that snowmobiling suddenly got better as of this afternoon?
As I understand it, there's still this separate matter of some sort of dispute between some snowmobile association and insurers.
So, no.
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dandy72 wrote: The average for the continent is still well below what most people would consider comfortable (heck, bearable) without a winter jacket, boots and gloves. Inland, it's still one of the coldest places on Earth, where temperatures below -60C are not uncommon.
Possibly one of the most irrelevant comment's I've read outside of the SoapBox. It's ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing Antarctica. If the remark is supposed to prove or underline some point . . . well, it doesn't. Just a statement with a perceived connection that really has no connection to the topic.
Like commenting on a shark attack at some beach with something like "beach-goers often spend their time surrounded by sand."
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All I was saying is that some places are cold, other places are colder still. Antarctica's a big continent. This same sort of focus on one reading is what brings mass hysteria to mainstream media.
Headlines like these are also called clickbait.
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And all I was implying is that your comment has no relevance to the matter - it is essentially (1) misdirection, or at beest (2) attempting to marginalize or even ridicule the event.
Like if someone reported 45 C (113 F) where you live. Well - it's hotter in ovens all around the world . . .
Because of the rather unfortunate politicizing of climate change, beyond posting that the information that the event occurred, the topic is veering towards what was often soap-box fodder - a comment I made to the original post
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W∴ Balboos wrote: attempting to marginalize or even ridicule the event.
Ultimately my goal wasn't to ridicule the event. It was to ridicule the way it's being reported--clearly the intent was to blow things out of proportion. Clearly it worked.
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Do you really believe that extensive Arctic and Antarctic melting - in our life time - is of no consequence? New records - beating the previous record of only in 2015?
Fortunately, whether patterns aren't quite that simple or some populate islands low-lying islands are not yet under water. Polar vortex, it seems, is effectively offsetting some of the effects of the warming on the outer shelf. A similar strengthening of such a vortex in the Arctic has caused some unusually long cold spells in otherwise temperate zones.
Cold enough to kill some deciduous trees.
The point is, it's not overblown and is far more important a news post them the color of Kim Kardasian's underwear of some sports figures marital problems. Whether they live or die has little effect on things - melting of the polar ice caps? That has an effect on whether flaura and fauna do live and die. Climate change or a decade or two of unusual weather - this is an important observation.
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Ultimately I'm not stressing myself out over it. YMMV.
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sigh, so a bunch of people are going to trample all over the penguins isolated (for a very good reason) to make some shelters for a bird that comes out of the cold water to warm up (which is why they stand rather than lie on the cold ground.)
once a long time ago even trees grew on Antarctica, yet the penguins are still with us. They have their own way to cope, and the last thing they need is a bunch of idiots stumbling blindly though their lives (most birds will not return to a nest tampered by humans, penguins have nests though most wouldn't recognise it as such if they even looked really hard with expert assistance and bright yellow paint.)
As to this aphrodisiac effect, WTF? WTF? Lets give aphrodisiacs to our kids and then wonder why they are too lazy to go out and do normal things? Really WTFFF?? Way to reduce a population.
As to sounds that repel [the seals], what does an animal do if something just keeps annoying them, they eventually get real pissed of, take out their shotgun and blow it away. WTFFFFF are you thinking?
these people self righteous idiots see a small part, just a spec of a story they think is not to their liking and think fixing that fixes everything. It doesn't, most likely will introduce two or likely more new things that now need fixing.
These domes are a new pollution in their environment, so you are replacing one "perceived" problem with a definite new problem - these domes will fall apart and add litter (which some little birdies may eat), these things will rot their components and literally poison the very ground these animals need, and once again that's after a bunch of wankers first went through and kicked down their houses.
Sadly foolishness isn't the problem - we've always had it and always will.
it's letting it abound, even championing and praising it is what's really wrong.
In this there is not "no wisdom," worse than that it's the polar opposite!
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Thanks for doing the sanity check (and making such a good job of it). It was a task I wasn't looking forward to.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I thought that the original post was satire!
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