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5 Best Books for Competitive Programming


Competitive programming is key to improve your coding skills. It requires strong understanding of data structures, algorithms and the programming language you are using.

5 best books for competitive programming

Competitive programming improves your problem solving skills, it teaches you to think in terms of computer program. Competitive programming can get you into great companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. 

Best way to improve your competitive programming skills is to do practice solving problems and keep learning. Here we'll tell you 5 best books you can read to take your competitive programming skills to take you to next level.

1. Competitive Programming 3 by Steven Halim

This book is loved by almost every competitive programmer loves this book. This book covers up all the concepts from basic brute force approach to dynamic programming. It gives a brief introduction to all data structures and algorithms as that you need for competitive programming. You can get this book from amazon.

2.Introduction to Algorithms

This is bible for every programmer. It deeply covers up all the data structures and algorithms and explains everything in very neat way. Though, this is a huge book, but you'd enjoy reading every page of it. This is best book for complete self study. You can get this book from amazon. 

3. Programming challenges by Steven S Skiena

This books contains more than 100 programming challenges with examples, and explained solutions. This book gives you practical guide to tackle coding problems in competitive programming.

4. The Algorithm Design Manual

This book teaches you how are the algorithms designed. How can you come up with algorithms, how do you analyze algorithms, and how do you interpret algorithms. You must read this book to master the art of designing algorithms.

5. Guide to Competitive Programming by Antti Laaksonen

This book precisely focuses on competitive programming. It dives deeper into quickly identifying approach for solving the given problem. Debugging your code during contests, understanding limits and going for easier ways approaches whenever you can and much more. You can get this book from amazon.

 



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