On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: This is an excellent book. We used it when I took the data structures > course for my masters degree. In retrospect, I would have preferred > Knuth, but this was and is a great book to learn data structures. At the > time, Pascal was hot, and as I mentioned before it is a good language to > teach these concepts. But, it would drive me crazy at work when I would > see a C program written by a Pascal programmer :-). Actually, Knuth is > the Bible, and Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs is the prayer book. > > Another issue for the OP is where you want to use the skills you learn. > If you learn Python, but want to write code for the Android, then maybe > Java might be the way to go. But, simply to learn a programming > language^< > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_%2B_Data_Structures_%3D_Programs#cite_note-0 > > > , Python is relatively easy and well documented. If you are going to be > a system admin person then scripting languages such as Perl, CShell, and > BASH scripts might be useful. > > I have taught C at a local University, and one group of people learned > very well and another group really hated it. > > -- > Jerry Feldman >
Nice. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia
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