From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2007-05-12T01:32:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Object-oriented solution to Tower of Hanoi

quoth the Robert Klemme:

> While it is certainly a good thing to improve your knowledge of algebra,
> I suggest you also read a decent book on data structures and algorithms
> (Knut, Sedgewick or the like).  It's not so much mathematics you will
> learn from them but to analyze problems and find proper algorithms and
> data structures.  You'll learn why it is more efficient to use a Hash
> for lookups than traversing an array with key value pairs.  Things like
> that.  Hope that helps.
>
> Kind regards
>
> 	robert

Thanks Robert, good advice...

Apropos to your points, "Introduction to Algorithms" by Corman, Leiserson et 
al is currently on the way to my house via Amazon.

I was looking at the (in)famous Knuth books, but the word on the playground is 
that they are absolutely steeped in mathematical theory. This may or may not 
be true for all I know, but the fact that MIT Open Courseware 
6.046 -   "Introduction to Algorithms" uses the Corman book as text sealed my 
choice.

Thanks again,
-d
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