Who has fully studied Donald Knuth's The Art of Programming books?

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Good day!
Is there anyone who has fully studied Knuth's 4 volumes "The Art of Programming"?
I constantly hear that these are such hard works that “it is unrealistic to study”, “I only had enough for the first x pages”, “you will never read this”, etc. Therefore, the question arose of whether there are people at all who have mastered this work? What happened after that? What are the feelings? What changes in programming have taken place?
Or, at worst, maybe you have at least heard about the existence of such people among friends, or in general in the world? ))

Answer 1

My classmate read everything in a couple of years. The approach to programming has changed. Currently not working as a programmer.

Answer 2

There is at least one person, Donald Knuth himself :-)

Answer 3

In the US, job interviews are very common. Each student spends several years on a topcoder during their studies. So to some extent, yes, it helps. If you need to code some tricky algorithm in 100-200 lines. In fact, this book helps to masterfully conjure on finite sets of objects: graphs, arrays, trees, and so on. This is more of a rocket science in computer science than software engineering.

Answer 4

I read three volumes at one time, since the fourth was not written yet
Nothing has changed