Computer books

[Anton Markov]

James Knott wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:27:31PM -0500, Phillip Qin wrote:
>>
>>> Any one if there is a place in GTA (except university's bookstore)
>>> that I can buy computer books, such as data structure and algorithm?
>>
>>
>>
>> "Data structure and algorithm" are not mass-market stuffs, so you're
>> pretty much limited to University or College site.
>>
> 
> Actually, I used to see some books of that nature at Chapters.  However, 
> their entire computer, network and datacom section has been seriously 
> dumbed down, since Indigo took over.  Years ago, when I was attending 
> Ryerson, many of my texts were available at the World's Biggest 
> Bookstore, as well as in the Ryerson book store.

You may want to check out the Chapters/Indigo online store 
(chapters.ca), since they have a much larger selection there, and I 
found their prices a little lower than amazon.com.

I should probably mention, however, that my experience with chapters.ca 
has been bad so far. I ordered "Programming Challenges: The Programming 
Contest Training Manual" ~ 3 weeks ago, and they still don't have it in 
stock (I am surprised they have it at all). Maybe I should have paid the 
extra $5 and ordered from amazon.com.

Off topic, does anyone know any online books/ebooks/websites that 
explain the strategies used to solve programming contest-type questions 
rather than just giving questions and solutions? (I am trying to prepare 
for the Waterloo Canadian Computing Competition this year)

Thanks.


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