Textbooks & Other Resources

Caution

Please note that the following textbooks are NOT strictly required for this course, but they are strongly recommended for those who prefer to have a physical reference.

1. Introduction to Programming in Java (2nd edition; Chapters 1-4) by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne: link to online version of the textbook

2. Algorithms (4th edition) by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne: link to online version of the textbook

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Other Resources

Visualization and Animation

• VisuAlgo (website)

• Sorting Algorithms Animations (website)

• Data Structure Visualizations (website)

• Sorting Algorithms Visualizations, Clément Mihailescu (YouTube video)

• Sorting Algorithms Visualizations, Mike Bostock (website)

Books

• Composing Programs by John DeNero (free, open textbook)

• Think Python by Allen B. Downey (free, open textbook)

Video Course

• Algorithms and Data Structures Tutorial - Full Course for Beginners, freeCodeCamp.org (YouTube video)

• Data Structures and Algorithms in Python - Full Course for Beginners, freeCodeCamp.org (YouTube video)

• Algorithms by Jeff Erickson (free, open textbook)

Websites

• Data Structures and Algorithms, Geeks for Geeks (website)

• Big-O Cheat Sheet (website)

Problems for Practice

• Project Euler (website)

• LeetCode (website)

• Project Rosalind (website)

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Other (Advanced) Textbooks

• Algorithms by Sanjoy Dasgupta, Christos Papadimitriou, and Umesh Vazirani

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman

• Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skiena

• Algorithm Design by Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos

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