Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Cons: I've never been much of a fan of them. Rarely look at them, and never do them. But more than that, I find opening a book and seeing of bunch of "exercises" and "end of chapter quizzes" rather off-putting.
I have a few books I bought largely for reference material where stuff was omitted and left as an exercise to the reader (I'm looking at you, Sedgewick!) Regardless of how easy some of these exercises may be for me to solve, it isn't something I'm generally in the mood for when I pick up the book at work to check something. However, this isn't a book about algorithms so perhaps this isn't an issue really.
