@jhck, drothlis: Thank you very much to both of you, those suggestions are exactly what was asked for. I'd upvote you more if I could. :)

Both the Gries book and Stepanov's book have really impressive reviews on Amazon, am looking forward to diving into them.

http://www.amazon.com/Science-Programming-Monographs-Compute...

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Alexander-Stepano...