our presentation for the benefit of students by including more detail and explanations had an adverse effect on the faculty, who then had to sift through the added material to outline and prepare their lectures" (Hopcroft 1989). Still, the most cited edition of the book is apparently the 1979 edition: According to the website CiteSeerX, over 3000 scientific papers freely available online cite this edition of the book. See also Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser, another standard textbook in the field Solutions to Selected Exercises, Stanford University References External links Entry "Cinderella book". In: The Jargon file (version 4.4.7, December 29, 2003). available online (pdf) Book homepage Computer science textbooks Formal languages Automata (computation) 1968 non-fiction books 1979 non-fiction books 2000 non-fiction books 2006 non-fiction books 2016 non-fiction books