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I would be more impressed if detailed pseudo code was published as that would help someone writing in a different language and would guarantee you actually learn the algorithms; now the code might as well be copy/pasted or blindly translated.

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It's why I'm liking the Stanford Algorithms course[1] being taught by Tim Roughgarden: it's all pseudocode. I thought about taking the Princeton one being taught by Bob Sedgewick (author of the book you're linking to), but I don't really know Java very well and don't have a pressing need to learn it right away. The pseudocode approach has so far been great to get this self-taught programmer thinking at a higher level.

[1]: https://class.coursera.org/algo-004/

The Tim Roughgarden course is Analysis of Algorithms, and hence it deals a great deal with the complexity and mathematics with the algorithm and leaves implementation only to the pseudocode level while Bob Sedgewicks Algorithms course is more related to explanation and implementation of the algorithms, hence the dependency on language.

I've signed up for both and pretty fun both seem to me.

I preferred Bob Sedgewick's because of the emphasis on coding techniques which ultimately proved to be much useful for coding interviews. Having taken a course similar to Analysis of Algorithms, I felt the strong emphasis on the theoretical aspects of Big Oh to be cumbersome and did not contribute as directly to my ability to answer technical questions as compared to Sedgewick's approach which covers examples of sorting through animations and looking primarily at his Java code.

I started taking Bob Sedgewick's class and like it so far. https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI

Java is an easy language and pretty readable. It can serve as pseudo code.

That is just your personal opinion which is completely subjective because of the fact that Java is obviously your primary language.

Specify some examples and show us why is it so. Show some effort!

yes, as a adding note this books teaches enough Java at first to go through the book.

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