@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

@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-Computer/dp/0387964800 http://www.amazon.com/Science-Programming-Monographs-Compute... http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Alexander-Stepanov/dp/032163537X/ http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Alexander-Stepano...