Books every self-taught computer scientist should read
I haven't read Mastering Algorithms in C (I have the perl version) but if you want to mention one book on algorithms, that's got to be Skiena's Algorithm design Manual (http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/video-lectures/). I also like Jeff Erikson's algorithm lecture notes (http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/teaching/algorithms/notes/all-...) that comes as a 800+ PDF file.