A curated list of awesome places to learn and/or practice algorithms. Inspired by awesome-awesomeness and all the other awesome Awesome libraries.
Websites you should use to learn classic algorithms
- Wikipedia - Algorithms - Of course!!
- Wikipedia - Data Structures - and why not ?!!
- Geeks for Geeks - Lots and lots of well explained and implemented algorithms.
- Data Structure Visualizations - Visualize the behavior of Data Structures and play with its operations.
- Algorithms Visualization - A dense article on Algorithms Visualization.
- Big-O Cheat Sheet - Big-O complexities of common algorithms used in Computer Science.
- stoimen's web log - Some algorithms nicely explained.
- VisuAlgo - Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation.
Free and High Quality University Courses Online
- MIT - 6-00sc - An easy and well explained introduction to algorithms.
- MIT - 6-006 - Well explained algorithms.
- MIT - 6-046j - Similar to the previous one, but with different algorithms.
- YogiBearian YouTube Channel - Lots of well explained vidoes on various computer science subjects.
The most highly regarded books to learn algorithms
- Introduction to Algorithms - Essential!
- The Algorithm Design Manual - Easy to read and full of real world examples.
- Algorithm Design - Pretty straight-forward.
- The Art of Computer Programming - The Book.
- Elementary Algorithms - An awesome book about algorithms and data structures.
- Data Structures Using C - The basic concepts and usages of data structures.
Implementations of the most classic algorithms in a wide variety of programming languages
Online Judges to practice what you learned above
- UVA - Hundreds of problems (from previous ACM-ICPC Regionals, World Finals and others).
- SPOJ - More problems.
- ACM-ICPC Live Archive - Hundreds of problems from previous ACM-ICPC Regionals and World Finals.
- URI - Brazilian Online Judge. Not so much problems, but it's growing and it has online contests.
- CodeChef - More problems and monthly online contests.
- CodeMarshal - Real world contests online!
- ProjectEuler - Mathematical problems that can be solved using algorithms (or just a pencil, depends on how much you already know).
- TopCoder - Lots of problems and real world/money worthy problems in Graphic Design, Data Science and Development.
- Infoarena - Romanian Online Judge. 1500+ algorithmic problems
- AIZU ONLINE JUDGE - Japanese Online Judge.
- PKU JudgeOnline - Chinese Online Judge.
一些帮助你学习算法的工具
- flow-chart.js - A tool that let you create flowcharts that can simulate real programs.