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Ask HN: Algorithms Book Suggestions?

4 points by krishadi ↗ HN
In the last years, I have transitioned to a full-stack developer. But, have never gotten any formal education as a software developer or a CS degree.

I have implemented many algorithms myself, later to find out that these have names and are formally thought to computer science students.

I am now very interested to learn some fundamental algorithm, and maybe even some advanced ones for implementing search, ML, data-structures.

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tanganian
I'm also learning on my own, I don't have a particular book but a course to suggest: https://sp21.datastructur.es/. It's pretty good for a first encounter.
krishadi
Is there a reason you are learning it now?
tanganian
Prep for LeetCode in order to pass interviews (self-taught).
Jtsummers
https://hackernewsbooks.com/search?q=algorithms - Books collected from numerous HN threads and comments. That's the list of algorithms (in the title) books that have been recommended in the past. Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et al. is one I like, but I'm not sure how good it is for self-study. Algorithms by Sedgewick seems (from past discussions) more highly recommended for self-study, but I've never looked at it.