[bigred100]

How is proofwriting not useful? What do you expect in an algorithms class? It’s called algorithms, not Python Frameworks or something.

[thrower123]

I had hoped that we might write at least one line of executable code to actually implement any of the algorithms that we studied.

I think the same course could have been much more useful and even fun if you had to turn in working C code in addition to all the pen-and-paper work.

[hackermailman]

Algorithm Design by Tardos/Kleinberg is a much better book for this imho, going through 200+ problems and designing algorithms to solve them. Less reference style than CLRS and more like TAOCP.