On Father’s Day, 2020, my wife got me something that I have been looking forward to for a long time: The Art Of Computer Programming Boxset.

See, while I see myself as a Software Engineer, I also see myself as a Computer Scientist (and I consider those two very separate things). I love things like algorithms, and learning about novel ways to attack problems, but as I grow older, I realized that my fundamental Computer Science skills were waning. I just don’t use the knowledge enough in day-to-day work. I wanted to reconnect to those fundamentals, and picking up the “Bible of Computer Science” seemed like a decent way to do it. I knew what I was getting into, and thought I’d share my thoughts and reviews of the first volume, which I completed in January 2024, three and a half years after picking it up.

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