[codeisawesome]

Thank you for engaging the other commenter and articulating my stance better than I could have. Also - while I have deep respect (I truthfully do) for the expertise of folks who teach this material - I have lost patience for their patronising tones and unhelpful assumptions about the folks that might read this book and books like it.

The world needs an algorithms book that shows a modicum of humility to its readers. A book that assumes that more than simple children are reading it (incidentally, and in a puzzling contradiction - also using needlessly convoluted English to express ideas). Hopefully I can do something about that ‘one day’.

[trevor-e]

Totally agreed, the academic world has always operated and depended on a walled garden approach and making things needlessly complicated. Thankfully the cracks are forming, the pandemic probably sped things up quite a bit with universities trying to charge students to essentially watch Youtube videos.

What's funny to me is that UIUC offers an online CS masters program now. Not having accessible solution guides seems like a disadvantage to these students.

[aspaceman]

Let me write these solutions to these research level problems....Just give me a couple years and some funding please. They don’t have solutions yet. Hello? You have to figure them out because the professor doesn’t know.

Are you even reading what I’m saying? How do they write solutions? I feel like a crazy person as everyone is talking about a walled garden. Like hello? Do you understand what, “there is no solution until you find it” means? Do you understand what, “there are many worked solutions in the text” means?