The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 0: Introduction to Combinatorial Algorithms and Boolean Functions Book

I tried to go on with this book but I just couldn't. It's not the fact that is badly written. It's the code and the design that make it a turnoff (at least in my case).

I picked up this book after K&R and I started reading it in parallel with Robert Sedgewick's Algorithms in C Parts 1-4. I have quickly noticed the resemblance but I was curious to also see the differences. Mastering Algorithms in C uses a much modern coding style but it is also more opinionated. The whole coding style seams much more complex and that is a pretty big minus. Let's also not talk about the comments... "I don't want to adopt your coding style, I just want to learn how to improve mine!" That's my main problem with it. The only thing that i found to be great was the Q&A section.

I don't expect everybody to share my opinion but I usually want to read top notch learning material written by already recognized figures. So I will stick with Sedgewick.

If you want lo learn about data structures and algorithms in C just pick Algorithms in C, Parts 1-4: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching. You won't regret. That's as good as it gets.