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Computer Science Book for Young Adults
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Problem
What is a good beginner computer science book for a young adult, say, a 15 year old? I want to get started in CS, but have no idea where to start. I have limited experience in programming.
Solution
Even this might be too basic for teenager, I nicely shows how to abstract problems, and is applicable for kids :
I highly recommend all CS people to take a look at: Computer Science Unplugged , just to see how CS can look different :).
For young CS minded people I recommend to develop intuition by solving programming tasks from problem solving contests, like programming contests: ACM ICPC, Olympiads in Informatics etc.
It's nice way to go into "Practical Algorithmic" , which gives you best from both worlds: programming and algorithms. Thanks to that you will be prepared to go in future in both directions: CS oriented industry (Google, Yahoo etc), and University CS.
Nice places to start:
I highly recommend all CS people to take a look at: Computer Science Unplugged , just to see how CS can look different :).
For young CS minded people I recommend to develop intuition by solving programming tasks from problem solving contests, like programming contests: ACM ICPC, Olympiads in Informatics etc.
It's nice way to go into "Practical Algorithmic" , which gives you best from both worlds: programming and algorithms. Thanks to that you will be prepared to go in future in both directions: CS oriented industry (Google, Yahoo etc), and University CS.
Nice places to start:
- Sphere On-line Judge - you can sort problems from easiest to hardest and try to solve them
- http://www.topcoder.com/ - There are many contests for HS, you can find there similarly minded people to you.
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StackExchange Computer Science Q#888, answer score: 15
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