:wave: Not related to AOC, but i realised i need more hands on, on maze problems. Any recommendation...

# advent-of-code

[ritesh]

👋 Not related to AOC, but i realised i need more hands on, on maze problems. Any recommendations? Thinking of getting this one - Mazes for Programmers

[Alex LO]

Maybe some books about competitive programming could do the trick

[Olaf Gottschalk]

Are there any?? Good ones?

[Alex LO]

https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Competitive-Programming-Algorithms-Undergraduate-ebook/dp/B078S3G4JP/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

https://www.amazon.com/Common-Sense-Guide-Structures-Algorithms-Second/dp/1680507222[…]+dev&qid=1672248149&sprefix=algorithms+dev%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-4

https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850[…]d7f5fa96-bbbe-4cb1-a3f6-a4be6f903a78&pd_rd_i=0984782850&psc=1

Pretty good book

[Alex LO]

Cracking the coding interviews is the kind of book that could be used for competitive programming

[Alex LO]

Also the MiT OpenCourseWare have data structures and algorithms lectures if I remember correctly

[ritesh]

I went ahead and ordered this book - https://www.amazon.com/Common-Sense-Guide-Structures-Algorithms-Second/dp/1680507222[…]+dev&qid=1672248149&sprefix=algorithms+dev%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-4

I really like the format of aoc - which starts with some story and the problem isn't like - given this and find this. But, i believe i need more hands-on in few areas as this is the only time of the year i look at the problems and it takes way too long.

Probably some leet-code or something similar.

[Alex LO]

Oh ? for me it was the other way around, I like AoC but the story wrapped around it confuses me 😛