---
id: resources
title: Additional Resources
author: Benjamin Qi
description: A bunch of helpful links.
---

## Lists

  - [Awesome List (Inishan)](http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/23054)
  - [USACO Resources Page](http://www.usaco.org/index.php?page=resources)
    - some links (ex. in "Other Contests") are outdated

## Books

  - [Competitive Programmer's Handbook](https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf) (CPH) - Antti Laaksonen
    - The [CSES problemset](https://cses.fi/problemset/) (now at 200 problems) is quite good!
      - *Will be mentioned extensively in later modules.*
    - [Guide to Competitive Programming](https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Competitive-Programming-Algorithms-Undergraduate/dp/3319725467) is a paid book based off CPH
      - Can currently download PDF for [free](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-72547-5)!
  - Intro to USACO - Darren Yao 
    - *Some modules are based off chapters from this book.*
    - covers most of Bronze, Silver
    - [Java](http://darrenyao.com/usacobook/java.pdf), [C++](http://darrenyao.com/usacobook/cpp.pdf) versions
  - Competitive Programming Book - Steven Halim, Felix Halim
    - [Competitive Programming Book 1](http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~stevenha/myteaching/competitive_programming/cp1.pdf) is freely available but old
    - [Competitive Programming 4](https://cpbook.net/) is the latest edition of the book (with significant additions) but costs money.
      - Release date is July 19th, 2020.
  - [CS Guide](https://github.com/alwayswimmin/cs_guide) - Samuel Hsiang, Alexander Wei, Yang Liu
    - some more from TJHSST:
      - [TJ Senior Computer Team](https://activities.tjhsst.edu/sct/)
      - [TJIOI](https://github.com/tjsct/tjioi-study-guide) (just basics)
  - [Principles of Algorithmic Problem Solving](http://www.csc.kth.se/~jsannemo/slask/main.pdf) - Johan Sannemo
    - practice problems from Kattis
  - [Cracking the Coding Interview](http://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/)
    - good book specifically for programming interviews

## Courses

  - [Competitive Programming Course](https://github.com/SuprDewd/T-414-AFLV) - Bjarki Ágúst Guðmundsson
    - practice problems from Kattis
  - [Carnegie-Mellon ICPC Course](https://contest.cs.cmu.edu/295/f17/) - Danny Sleator
    - topic-specific contests in CF group
  - [VPlanet](https://www.vplanetcoding.com/courses) - Riya Arora
    - courses for various levels
  - [Cousera Algorithms Pt 1 (and Pt 2)](https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1) - Kevin Wayne, Robert Sedgewick
    - Java (has anyone done this course?)

## Tutorials

  - [cp-algorithms](https://cp-algorithms.com/) (E-Maxx Eng)
    - many
  - [Topcoder Data Science Tutorials](http://www.topcoder.com/community/data-science/data-science-tutorials/)
    - many, format is not always great
  - [CSAcademy](https://csacademy.com/lessons/)
    - few (but nice) lessons
  - [List of CF Tutorials](http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/57282)
    - many

## Implementations

  - [KTH ICPC Team Reference (KACTL)](https://github.com/kth-competitive-programming/kactl)
    - ICPC book
  - [USACO Github](https://github.com/bqi343/USACO) - Benjamin Qi
    - ICPC book
    - past USACO solutions
  - [ekzlib](http://ekzlib.herokuapp.com) - Eric Zhang
    - (advanced) implementations

## USACO Problems

  - [Silver - Platinum Todo Checklist](https://darren-yao.gitbook.io/darren-s-blog/usaco-faq#what-should-i-use-to-keep-track-of-which-usaco-problems-ive-done)
  - [Benq - Platinum Categorization](https://github.com/bqi343/USACO/blob/master/Contests/USACO%20Links/Division-Specific/Platinum.md) (and some for other divisions)
    - [USACO solutions](https://github.com/bqi343/USACO/tree/master/Contests/USACO%20Solutions)
  - [Silver Categorization](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ba2jr2PFrtxHuGfvdjYVKX-8VzkQAdhpiMLlpXxiAOM/edit)