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Discrete Structures, Logic, and Computability
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Author: James L. Hein
List Price: $94.95
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ISBN: 0763718432
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Pub (May, 2002)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 602,280
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Excellent book!
This is an excellent book! Easy to read and understand. I am an "A" student, at Portland State University and I think that people who wrote bad reviewes of this book did not read the book (just like they might read every 50th page of any other book). Bill Gates once said that every person is born to be able to understand only up to a certain level of abstraction. Just like some of us are born to be able to lift 500 lbs. and some only 50 lbs. In addition, a person has to have some background to be able to understand more advanced topics. The book is most excellent.
Rating: 1 out of 5
This book is not very good.
This book makes a better door stop, than a academic text book. Having taken the classes at PSU I know this book front to back. The dosent really explain the subjects well, the book as a whole lacks focus. The first half of the book is horribly written, and abismal when actually compated to a discrete mathmatics, and/or group theory book. So much so there is a bit of a running joke about it in the math department. I would recomend to any CS student to avoid the text book and study from a regular math book instead.
Rating: 4 out of 5
A Good Text
I've taught from this text for 8 years. The excellent students have no problem with it. The average students complain that it is hard to understand. I don't think any text covering these topics could be easier to understand, actually.There are plenty of examples in the text. However, the exercises tend to be significantly more complex than the examples. The answers to many exercises are in the back of the book, which is a great help to students.
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