Learning Algorithms and Data Structures Fundamentals [closed]

Answer 1

If you want an enlightening alternative for learning algorithms you can always try: Rabhi F., Lapalme G. Algorithms.. a functional programming approach.

The authors challenge more traditional methods of teaching algorithms by using a functional programming context, with Haskell as the implementation language. This leads to smaller, clearer and more elegant programs which enable the programmer to understand the algorithm itself more quickly and to use that understanding to explore alternative solutions. Placing the emphasis on program development rather than the mathematical properties of algorithms, the book uses a succession of practical programming examples to develop in the reader problem-solving skills which can be easily transferred to other language paradigms.to other language paradigms.

As for a site with (hard) exercises you can always try to solve, I recommend: spoj .

Answer 2

Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition, by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein is a good intro to algorithms and data structures. It has many exercises at the end of each chapter. most of them are simple, but there are some more difficult.

Answer 3

Video lectures by National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning(NPTel) at NPTEL Youtube channel. These are being carried out by seven IITs and IISc Bangalore of India and funded by MHRD, Govt of India.

Many more engineering lectures.

Answer 4

Additional to the really good text book Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition, by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein, I would highly recommend to watch the online available videos of lectures given by Leiserson at MIT. If you have the book and the lectures, it is like you were studying at the MIT ;-)

http://videolectures.net/mit6046jf05_introduction_algorithms/