TAOCP - The Art Of Computer Programming Reading Group

We are devoted to reading, understanding and working through The Art Of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth (TAOCP). We go through a portion of TAOCP at each meetup. Text is read and discussed. We work on some simple and medium exercises.

The world is fortunate that over 50 years ago a person like Donald Knuth undertook an epic quest of bringing "readers to the frontiers of knowledge in every [computer science] subject that was treated". Later realizing that "the rapid rise of computer science made such a dream impossible", he decided to "concentrate on classic techniques that are likely to remain important for many more decades, and to describe them as well as [he could]".

We strongly believe Knuth has gathered timeless concepts and explained them with great flair. The material is detailed and rigorous and leavened with humor.

If you feel the same way or would like to know why the ACM Turing Award cited Knuth's TAOCP as having "served as a focal point for developing curricula and as an organizing influence on computer science", please join us in our endeavor to study and learn from TAOCP in a systematic and regular manner.

Anyone may join from anywhere. No programming knowledge is required.

Meetings are recorded and posted to The Art of Computer Programming YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHOHy9Rjl3MlEfZ2HI0AD3g

Meeting schedules, notes and exercise solutions are in Github, along with sample MMIX assembly language programs for the special MMIX computer used throughout TAOCP

https://github.com/theartofcomputerprogramming/meetup

https://github.com/theartofcomputerprogramming/mmixsamples

https://github.com/theartofcomputerprogramming/exercises

Members may join our Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/678335496099220

IRC ##taocp: https://webchat.freenode.net/##taocp