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kindalost
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Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundame...
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik.
Karsteski
on Dec 9, 2021
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Oh I know Donald Knuth from the Lex Fridman podcast. I am noting that it was written in 1994. Would any problems result from this?
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No but it's a maths textbook more than anything else. Not really a starting point for the sort of thing you're describing.
ogsalmanxx
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It’s a fundamentals thing, you will have to practice it a lot before it clicks and becomes practical for you to use on a daily basis.
But it won’t help you land a job at a startup, for that you need to learn JavaScript or C++
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