Grokking Algorithms
An illustrated guide for programmers & other curious people
Grokking Algorithms launched on May 31, 2016 with 70 votes, #837 of 3,824 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
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Aditya Bhargava
That's the section on hash functions in both Introduction to Algorithms and Grokking Algorithms . I'm a visual learner, so my book has 400+ illustrations. Grokking Algorithms is also example-driven, so I give plenty of real-world examples in the book. Here's how my chapter on breadth-first search starts out: Suppose you're in San Francisco, and you want to go from Twin Peaks to the Golden Gate bridge. You want to get there by bus, with the minimum number of transfers. Here are your options: We can choose between two standard ways to represent a graph G = (V, E): as a collection of adjacency lists or as an adjacency matrix. Either way applies to both directed and undirected graphs. It is…from adit.io
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