note Abigail The Art of Computer Programming is a wonderful series. It is the bible of algorithms design. And although it discusses very basic algorithms, it's quite a high level book. <p> The Wolf book is not a good algorithms book. In the introduction, the Wolf book says that many algorithm books use pseudo-code and not a "real" language, claiming that that is a drawback of those other books. Unfortunally, the Wolf book shows that using pseudo-code is better idea. <p> If you are looking for a good general Algorithms book, go for Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson and Ronald L. Rivest: <I>Introduction to Algorithms</I>, Cambridge: MIT Press, <B>1990</B>. ISBN 0-262-03141-8. And get yourself the hardcover. My paperback is falling apart from years of heavy usuage. <p> -- Abigail 22406 22406