Getting Started | CodeChef

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

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
Get started with the sport of programming
Add problems to your Todo list, so that you can learn and solve them later.
Create your own Sets of friends to follow

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

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

Curated list of resources and problems
Introduction to Algorithms
Introduction to Graphs
Computing Factorials of a huge number in C/C++

Stanford Team Notebook
Hitchhiker's Guide to Programming Contests

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

Data Structures
Algorithms
Advanced Data Structure and Algorithms

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
Complete STL guide
Awesome Java
Awesome Python

Awesome Linux
UNIX Programming Tools

Indian Computing Olympiad
Usaco Training Program

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

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