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I'm one of the students of Brad Miller, creator of this platform, and worked on developing it for a summer. Feel free to ask questions!

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Not a question, more like a feature request. Really wish this had answers to the exercises to verify correctness of a student's solution.

Hey, this is a wonderful concept. I am a self-taught web dev who works mostly in Python, and I've just begun to learn algorithms & data structures.

What chapters to you think I, or someone like me, would get the biggest kick out of?

It is rather short and I would suggest going through all of it. It won't take long. Plus don't forget the exercises.

I will, thank you.

I asked more to hear the author's opinion about which of the concepts are most directly applicable/related to web development so I can start with those (feel free to answer if you know!).

Depends what you mean by web development. If you describe the tasks you work on, I can make some suggestions.

Otherwise, the only reasonable answer is http://norvig.com/21-days.html

This is awesome link which will guide everyone who is hunger

I also would suggest working through the entire book. It was written by Brad Miller (one of the founding members of NetPerceptions and professor of computer science at Luther College) and David Ranum (currently a researcher for IBM Watson), so they know what they're talking about and what is relevant.

P.S. If you're keen in solidifying your academic understanding of algorithms be sure to pay attention to the section on big-O notation.

As a Luther student, this is awesome.

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