Status 20110906(a)

Finished Chapter 23 and 24.  Finished in my head: 23.1-1,23.1-3. Consciously decided to skip Chapter 19 and 20 Move my reading pointers for 185 pages.  Now at Chapter 25.

Browse reading: 685/1144

Exercises up to 4-4.5

Revisit : 4.2-{3-5}, 4-3.6, 4-4.3 after section 4.5

Checking up to P2.1

Needs write up: 2-3.7 (nice solution using merging), P2.1c, 3-2.4, 3-2.8, P3.1

Exercises checked: 2.1-2, 2.1-3, 2.2-{1,4}, 2.3-{3,7}

Exercises which are finished but not on paper: 1.1-2, 1.2-2, 1.2-3, P1-1, The whole Section 4.4 except 4.4-3, 4.5-{1,3}, P4.4(a-c), P4.6b, 5.1-{1,2}, whole Section 6.1, 6.2-{1,2,4,5,6}, 6.3-1, whole Section 7.1, 7.2-{1-3}, whole Section 7.3 and 7.4.3, 10.1-{1-4,6,7}, 10.2-{1,2,6,7}, 12.1-{1,2,3,4} 12.2-{1,2,3,6}, 12.4-4, P12.4(a), 15-1.1, 15.1-3, 15.3-3, 15.5, 17-1.1, 21-1.1, 21-1.2, 22-1.{1-3,7}, 23.1-1 and 23.1-3, A.1-{1,2,3,4,5,7}, C.1-{2,4,5,7,8,9,14}, C.2-{1,2,4,5}, C.3-{1,2,10}, all in D.1. and D.2-2. 

Skipped in Chapter 19 and Chapter 20

After a month long of lacking of momentum, I decided to skip both Chapter 19 and Chapter 20 in my reading.
Both of these topics require very solid understanding of the basic data structures.  I only have some understanding but they are not solid.  So I will skip it for now.

Does it really affect my further reading? I don't think so. Fibonacci heap is ok because it is mostly used in implementing priority queue.  I have no idea how Van de Boa trees would be used.  I guess for that reason, I don't have too much trouble to read through the graph algorithms chapters.

That will also mean I will have a 2nd browse read.  What does that mean?  After I "browse" the book once.  I will restart browsing from the chapter I hadn't do any exercises yet and start to reread from there.    For me, that would be Chapter 5.  As I already know many got stuck in the first few chapters, so the fact that I can restart from Chapter 5 means I am upgraded from the time I first start in March.

Alright, it's time to update the status.