A collection of sport programming 'must reads'

How to Practice

Online Contests:

• topcoder
• Facebook Hacker Cup
• Google Code Jam
• What are the various online programming contests? by quora

Advent of code Hackerrank Spoj Codechef Valladolid OJ (http://acm.uva.es/p) Official ACM Live Archive (http://cii-judge.baylor.edu/) Peking University Online Judge (http://acm.pku.edu.cn/JudgeOnline/) Programming Challenges (http://www.programming-challenges.com)

Books

• Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) by Thomas H. Cormen et al. - well-known CLRS book, one of my favorite book especially recommended before [Google interview](How should I prepare for my Google interview if I have 1 month left?).
• Algorithm Design by Jon Kleinberg and Éva Tardos
• Algorithms by Sanjoy Dasgupta
• The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven S Skiena
• Algorithms 4th Edition by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne
• Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) by Jon Bentley
• Algorithms and Data Structures: The Basic Toolbox
• Shen book

Materials & articles

• CS 97SI: Introduction to Programming Contests
• Lecture Slides for Algorithm Design by Jon Kleinberg and Éva Tardos
• Mathematics for computer science by Eric Lehman

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