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Recommendations on text books that help on competitive programming?

By RenatoBA, history, 5 years ago, In English

I am currently working on a software engineering degree. Most of the knowledge relevant to CP I have I got by trial and error, after reading many people's code and understading what they did. Do you have some recommendations of text books I can read that will help me mature my knowledge in computer science and math concepts related to competitive programming?

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http://cp-algorithms.com

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The three main English books that are specifically about CP, not just about math/algorithms in general, are:

If you find regular math/algorithms textbooks to be difficult to apply to CP, then you may find those books useful. They aren't as comprehensive as well-known books like CLRS or Knuth, but they'll point you more directly to CP concepts.

But textbooks are just a way to get started. Getting better at CP still requires online research and reading other people's submissions. It's the nature of the topic.

For further reading:

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    Could you please specify the names of first book and modular.pdf?

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      Do you know the name of 100.pdf book?

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      search exact as it is, you will get it.but 100,fft2,modular please provide name of these books or link.Thanks in advance.

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    Can you actually upload all these pdfs to drive and share!!!!

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      Can you respect the authors and pay them for their work?

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