Hi, I decided to post this blog to share various books and resources I used for Competitive Programming! I feel that these books were beneficial to my Competitive Programming journey.

lnishan posted blog that has a lot of extensive resources.

kostka has also posted a blog with a really detailed book that is definitely worth checking out!

Codeforces Education is also a really great resource!

General Competitive Programming Books:

• Competitive Programming Handbook

• Competitive Programming 3

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Programming Contests

"Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen et. al.

"Algorithms" by Sedgewick.

"The Design and Analysis of Algorithms" by Kozen.

"Algorithms in C/C++ Parts 1-5" by Sedgewick.

"Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms" by Sedgewick, Flajolet.

"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Sussman, Abelson.

"Art of Computer Programming" by Knuth (reference).

Algorithms and Data Structures

• Guide to Dynamic Programming

• Courses:

Coursera Algorithms (I)

Coursera Algorithms (II)

Coursera Algorithms (III)

MIT OCW (Introduction to Algorithms)

MIT OCW (Algorithm Design/Analysis)

MIT OCW (Advanced Data Structures)

• Other Resources:

Big-O cheat sheet

Introductory Resources

• MITX ON EDX COURSE SEQUENCE

Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python

Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science​

• MIT ON-CAMPUS VIDEO LECTURES

Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python

Resources on learning programming languages: These are some books for if you are just starting to learn a programming language, or deciding to switch to a programming language:

• Bronze/Silver USACO Books by Darren Yao — Java
• Bronze/Silver USACO Books by Darren Yao — C++
• C++ Basic to Advanced Video
• Java Full Course Video
• Python Full Course Video
• Sololearn

List of practice problems

• Atcoder Library
• EJOI
• EOI
• USACO
• CSES
• Kattis
• POJ
• SPOJ
• Timus

Hope you find this useful!