Grokking Algorithms Is Out (adit.io)

if you want to get a feel for how the book will read, the author has written a handful of illustrated blog posts in a similar style:

http://adit.io/posts/2016-03-13-Logistic-Regression.html

http://adit.io/posts/2016-02-20-Linear-Regression-in-Picture...

http://adit.io/posts/2013-07-22-lenses-in-pictures.html

http://adit.io/posts/2013-05-15-Locks,-Actors,-And-STM-In-Pi...

As someone just learning programming, I found the first few chapters to be super helpful, and ridiculously easy to understand. Honestly, if you want a pretty funny, and really simple book on algorithms, I could not recommend this enough.

Here is a free article on Dijkstra's Algorithm, written by the author, for those who want to get a taste of what the book is like.:

http://freecontent.manning.com/wp-content/uploads/grokking-a...