GATE study materials

        This is a minimal list of study materials for GATE. This list includes two types of materials - first a set of video lectures, books, lectures notes for basic concepts and the second type is a set of practice books for testing those concepts. Remember reading theory is not enough, after reading a chapter always try to solve some problems (both mcq and long problems).

List of materials for theory:

• MATH

• A first course in probability by Sheldon Ross - this is easy and efficient book for basic probability theory. 
• Graph Theory : with applications to engineering and computer science by Narsingh Deo 
• Engineering mathematics by B.S. Grewal

• Digital Logic

  • Digital Logic and Computer Design by Morris Mano

• Computer organization and architecture

  • Computer system architecture by Morris Mano -- this book easy to understand.
  • Mano's book does not cover all parts so you need to google for some chapters.
  • Computer organization bu Hamacher -- difficult to understand. Read only if you have plenty of time.

• Data structures

  • For basics read any standard book, if you find any difficulty in understanding then watch video lectures, there are thousands of video lectures in youtube
  • For advanced topics watch these lectures Data Structures And Algorithms by Naveen Garg

• Algorithm

  • Video Lectures (including lecture slides) : Intoduction to algorithms - this is one of the best resources available in the internet on this topic.
  • Books : Introduction to algorithms by Cormen - it may seem difficult for average students, you may have to read 2-3 times to understand some difficult topics but its worth it.
  • Algorithms by Papadimitriou - easy to understand.

• Theory of computation

  • Video lecture ( including study materials): Theory of Computation by Shai Simonson - simple, elegant & awesome.
  • Study material by Dr. Baker of Texax university - very good material.

• Compiler design

  • Compiler book by Aho,Ullman

• Operating Systems

• Video Lectures: UCB lectures - a huge list of video lectures, just find whatever topic you want to learn.
• Books: Operating system conceppts by Galvin

 to be continued ...

Note: This list will be modified in regular interval. This is just a minimal list, there are many advanced topics for which you need to google for a better study material. 

List of materials for practice:

• Previous years GATE papers - must practice these in order to get the feel of GATE.
• Gateforum, Madeeasy, Kanodia materials are good for practice

A huge list of video lectures are available here covering most of the topics in GATE - arsdigita lectures

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