Engineering video
0:56 · 12 May 2024
The speaker shares that "King Algorithms" is the best and easiest way to start learning algorithms because it avoids the dry, complex math and unhighlighted code of other books, using simple drawings and plain English instead.
Hear it at 0:00 →the best, easiest, and most complete uh way to start with algorithms, it's King Algorithms. Why is this in our top five? What can you tell us about this book? I tried so many Algo books and I always tried to read before I go to sleep and I just couldn't really uh get any information in most of them because they're super dry, there's like code examples on paper which are very high to understand, there's no syntax highlighting in books.
So, it was just a disaster. And then I found this one where there's all these little drawings and it's superantly very simple concepts that you learn, but it's just something that you can read before you go to sleep. It's plain English, and I loved it. I I felt like Algos are not as hard as uh they pretend to be. Whereas there's so many books where they go into linear algebra and all this complicated stuff, and it would be too dry to actually read before I go to sleep, or in my free time, I would actually have to study those books.
Get a copy of it, especially if you're interviewing for one of those fann companies out there.
