“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once someone starts his journey as a programmer, the first few steps which are taken and the habits inculcated tell a lot about how his journey is going to turn out. The right guidance is difficult to find and follow, the right teacher even more so. Here is the one book which helped me kickstart my journey as a programmer, in the most efficient way-

Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people

By: Aditya Y. Bhargava

Grokking Algorithms is a book written for beginners in a very easy to understand manner. The algorithms are explained by connecting them to the real-life problems, which programming beginners often don't realize at the right time.

This one book helped me learn some really complex algorithms like never before. The illustrations, examples, and code together make learning so engaging that if you are really invested, you would finish the book in a week at max.

It'll start with teaching you the basics of searching and sorting in a fully illustrated manner, explaining each algorithm while moving forward to the more complicated ones. By the end of this book, you will have aced widely applicable algorithms along with the knowledge of where to use them and how.

Learning about algorithms doesn't have to be boring! (which was difficult for me to believe when I started with it) This book gave me confidence and made the concepts interesting, I really hope it does the same to you as well!

Keep learning :)