I was a TA for classes using this material. We(the TAs) sometimes come up with problems to be incorporated in it. The lecture notes are superb, I often refer people to them because it's freely available.
The hw is basically"given you've learned this, can you apply them?" I found many students like this style of problems.
I personally prefer the homework problems of Sariel har-Peled(who teaches in the same university, and I'm TAing for) http://sarielhp.org/teach/
His hw problems guides one to figure out important materials that's not covered in class by breaking it down to small steps. (Say, a hw problem that introduces parametric search)
I definitely recommend solve some sariel style problems once one mastered the basic material.
> Despite several rounds of revision, these notes still contain mnay mistakes, errors, bugs, gaffes, omissions, snafus, kludges, typos, mathos, grammaros, thinkos, brain farts, nonsense, garbage, cruft, junk, and outright lies, all of which are entirely Steve Skiena’s fault
(Skiena is the author of The Algorithm Design Manual which is a very popular algorithm book. Seems like he reviewed these notes :)
I like computer science books with a sense of humor in any case...
It's actually a reference to a disclaimer in Algorithm Design Manual. I don't think he actually reviewed the lecture notes.
The Algorithm Design Manual had the following(page ix in second edition) "Any errors, deficiencies, or problems in this book are somebody else’s fault, but I would appreciate knowing about them so as to determine who is to blame."
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Spring 1999, Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2002, Spring 2004,
Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009,
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and Fall 2014.-->" found in source
The hw is basically"given you've learned this, can you apply them?" I found many students like this style of problems.
I personally prefer the homework problems of Sariel har-Peled(who teaches in the same university, and I'm TAing for) http://sarielhp.org/teach/ His hw problems guides one to figure out important materials that's not covered in class by breaking it down to small steps. (Say, a hw problem that introduces parametric search) I definitely recommend solve some sariel style problems once one mastered the basic material.