#taocp

[danjconn]

Did a bit of study procrastination waiting for the coffee to work, and am happy to say it's taken nearly 4 years to get to page 29 of The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth! Still in basic concepts before you understand the book and I feel I've now hit the next brick wall for another 4 years. At least now I'm in the right gear to tackle what I'm meant to be doing! Maths go brrrrrr! #devlife #taocp #study #mscmadness https://www.instagram.com/p/CCvAxHiFZox/?igshid=1ixbsw5nhryrm

[fernand0]

“The Art of Computer Programming” by Donald Knuth — Medium

[cmr-devlog]

19-28 December 2014

So, for whatever reason I guess I forgot to update this. From the 19th to the 26th, I indeed managed to do everything on my Rust todo list for this break, as scheduled. On the weekend, I worked through TAOCP 1.1 and 1.2.1-2. I also read two of the assigned books for Cultural Anthropology, which I am taking next semester. My goal for the next week and a half until the next semester starts is to at least read all of the material that will be covered, if not do some exercises. I've found that when I try to rush through the semester, I don't have quite enough time to think and ponder and tinker to produce results that satisfy me. Hopefully by getting the gears churning early, I can get closer to the much-envied 4.0 GPA (I managed a 3.2 last semester, which is a drastic change from the 1.5 of the semester prior to that).

[nvas]

Computer Scientists with a Sense of Humor!

It is often said that, in order to be successful, above all, one needs to have a good sense of humor. Here are some excellent examples of the practice by Donald E. Knuth.

The delivery speech delivered by Herbert S. Wilf at the birthday conference (2002) in honor of Don, at Stanford, contains many such instances:

http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/website/dek.pdf

There is also his (indirect) response on a stackoverflow question: 

http://codehaus.blogspot.com/2012/03/note-from-donald-knuth-about-taocp.html

Haven't gone through TAOCP yet, but his sense of humor and personality shine pervasively through other manuscripts I've seen.