Having a bit of trouble with self-learning from Cormen et al's algo book
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Solution
That book was hard for me too. We used it at the university I attended and I often had to refer to other sources to get simpler explanations when I found CLRS a little over my head. Once I got the Wikipedia explanation straight in my head, and a code sample working (which CLRS often lacks), I found that I was able to go back to the text and make sense of it.
Don't worry about doing all of the exercises. Even the super-elite MIT students don't have to do them all. Do what you can do and move on. If you need a concept in the next chapter that you had glossed over, it will still be there for you to backtrack to.
MIT OpenCourseWare has also made available the old lectures for Introduction to Algorithms (SMA 5503).
Problem
I started reading Intro to Algorithms by Cormen et al like 3 weeks ago on my free time. I finished the second chapter and have been trying out the exercises for quite a while. I find them a bit difficult. Is this normal? Should I finish all the exercises before moving on? Or is it alright if I solve the ones I can and move on to the next chapters, possibly coming back to the exercises I can't figure out right now? If anyone out there has had experience with this book, can you tell me how it was for you? I'm a bit discouraged on not being able to solve quite a few of the exercises here.