[badminton1]

This book gets to the point fast. But for the fundamentals this book serves more as a refresher than a course.

Skiena and Sedgewick both have excellent books and online courses if you need more depth.

A nice thing about this book is that the full TeX source is on github.

[badminton1]

There are some sections that are a bit dense and may require some additional work. The string algorithms section is very dense compared to the rest.