algs4 VS full-speed-python

Accompanying resources for the Sedgewick and Wayne Algorithms book at https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/. There are quite a number of examples and exercises for you to go through that lean more towards implementation. I usually recommend to at least go through CLRS or your lecture notes before looking at this.

I agreed. CLRS is not beginner friendly and really hard to follow if the reader does not have some background prior to reading the book. Algorithms by Sedgewick is much better, his course on Coursera (although the implementation is in Java) is much more intuitive. Programming Abstraction in C++ is also pretty good.

Algorithms 4th Edition

Try reading this book or any other source available to you.

I recommend Sedgewick’s course and book if you’re serious about it.

If you're learning Python, and know other programming languages, I have this online ebook [1] that I use with my students so that they learn Python fast enough so that I can teach them about socket programming.

Basically, in each chapter I give a small detailed introduction to the topic and then students do some exercises to solidify things.

[1] https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python

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I'm available for Python and Django freelance work, if it's interesting enough. I've 10+ years of professional experience working with that stack. You can check some of my projects at [1] and look at some of my code at [2] and [3].

I'm also a part-time CS Professor (I have a CS PhD - AI - TextMining), so I'm also available for tutoring students 1-1 (or small groups). Topics can include anything from CS curricula, but I have lots of experience introducing people to programming (I have a Python ebook with exercises - fullspeedpython [4]), and building web apps either in Python or Java (intro to programming, databases, networking, html+css, webframeworks, webservices => web apps). If you're new to CS and programming and you're self-learning, I can help you navigate what's important, what's irrelevant and provide you with some guidance.

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[1] https://joaoventura.net/projects/

[2] https://github.com/joaoventura/

[3] https://github.com/flatangle/flatlib

[4] https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python

I’m in the initial phase of structuring a book that aims to teach some simple algorithms and data structures using Python. The idea is that the reader should do the (guided) exercises to learn how to build those data structures. It’s basically “learn by doing”.

For instance, to teach what a stack is I’ll explain the basic idea of a stack, then provide a base class and the reader must implement each method (init, push, pop, peek, etc) given the requirements and intended results of each functionality.

I have a learn by doing ebook about Python (https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python), so it’s like a follow-up to that one. Don’t know if people are interested though..

Cool list! @pamoroso, if you read this comment, I've submitted an issue on the repo to add my own ebook (full-speed python).

If someone stumbles on this on HN, here's the link to the repo [1] and releases [2]. It's basically a simple ebook where each chapter shows a little bit of what you can do with something (numbers, strings, lists, dicts, modules, etc.) and then the reader solves the asked exercises. I use this for my students who already know how to program (BSc and MSc) to get up to speed with Python, so that we can go learn sockets, http protocols, web frameworks, etc..

[1] https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python/

[2] https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python/releases/