Do you have a book recommendation to help someone read papers. I spent an couple evenings going over MIT course notes on discrete mathematics to attempt to read a paper on Conflict-free Replicated Data Types <http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/55/55/88/PDF/techrep...;
What I would give for a book at that time that would help me translate the following:
merge (X, Y ) : payload Z
let ∀i ∈ [0, n − 1] : Z.P[i] = max(X.P[i], Y.P[i])
Into
def merge(X, Y):
Z = ... new object ...
for i in range(len(X.P) - 1):
Z.P[i] = max(X.P[i], Y.P[i])
return Z
I eventually figured it out but it was a bit rough trying to figure out what all the symbols meant.
I don't know if it is true about that book in particular, but if I'm buying a textbook as a resource I usually look for the international editions. They sell near identical versions of the books (shuffle the problem sets around) in other places around for much, much less.
What I would give for a book at that time that would help me translate the following:
Into I eventually figured it out but it was a bit rough trying to figure out what all the symbols meant.