[justin66]

> I found the video lectures for this course extraordinarily boring compared to the Stanford algorithms courses taught by Roughgarden. Sedgewick is a brilliant computer scientist, but those videos really put me to sleep.

At the risk of sounding overly negative when it's not intended: they're both very boring lecturers. I actually wonder if that might change a bit when they're interacting with a real audience.

[sirclueless]

Having actually been in Sedgewick's lectures, I can confirm that his soothing slow monotone is more effective than Nyquil for lulling students to sleep. That said, his course is damn excellent, and I know of no other teachers that have done better at making a course that actually teaches comp sci fundamentals in an approachable way. He's very understandable and clear even when played at 1.5x speed, which I recommend to anyone who isn't having trouble thinking through the concepts faster than he can lecture through them.