getting-started.md

Getting Started

This page is intended to help new comers boot up to programming and then gradually take them to competitive programming.

Get started on CodeChef

• A Newbie's Question
• Approach to become Good Programmer
• What problems should I start solving first?
• Frequently asked questions
• Ask your doubt
• Practice easy problems

Solve your first problem on CodeChef (video links)

• Solving your first problem in C
• Solving your first problem in C++
• Solving your first problem in Java

Learn to Program

• Code.org
• Standford Courses
• Introduction to Algorithms
• Codecademy
• Udacity
• NPTEL-Data Structures And Algorithms(IIT Delhi)
• CodeMonkey - Write Code. Catch Bananas. Save the World

Learn Data Structure and Algorithms

• Introduction to Algorithms
• Introduction to Graphs
• Computing Factorials of a huge number in C/C++
• MAXimal - All algorithms are given brief descriptions and program in C++

Competitive programming references for competitions

• Standford Team Notebook
• Hitchhiker's Guide to Programming Contests

Some Programming Jewels to get your started

• Anyone Can Code
• Introduction to Competitive Programming Contests
• List of Topics for programming Competitions
• MIT Open Courseware: Video lectures
• Skiena's Algorithms Lectures
• Topcoder Algorithm Tutorials

Wikibooks links

• Data Structures
• Algorithms
• Advanced Data Structure and Algorithms

Language Specific

C/C++

• Awesome C++
• The C++ Annotations
• C++ Reference
• Essential C - Important C Concepts
• Essential C++ - Important C++ and OOPs Concepts
• Pointers in C Basics
• Pointers and Memory - Types, Allocation in C/C++
• STL Documentation
• STL-Algorithm Documentation
• TopCoder STL Tutorial Part 1
• TopCoder STL Tutorial Part 2

Java

• Awesome Java

Python

• Awesome Python

Learn Linux

• Awesome Linux
• Basic Linux Command Lines
• Basic Linux Command Lines 2
• UNIX Programming Tools

Practice on other sites

• Indian Computing Olympiad
• Usaco Training Program

Other Resources

• Awesome- Everything about Computer Science
• AlgoWiki - Collection of all CS resources

Contributing to this repo

Do you know better resources that are not included on this page?

• Please read Contributing to this repository
• First fork the repo
• You can add links of different sources on different topics.
• You can also create topics and add different resources to it.
• Make sure that links that you provide are related to the topic!
• send us a pull request.
• We will also be happy to add Collaborators to the projects. Feel free to edit the "getting started.md" and "getting-started.html" file and start contributing.
• If you face any issue send us an email.