As someone just learning programming, I found the first few chapters to be super helpful, and ridiculously easy to understand. Honestly, if you want a pretty funny, and really simple book on algorithms, I could not recommend this enough.

Here is a free article on Dijkstra's Algorithm, written by the author, for those who want to get a taste of what the book is like.:

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