Where algorithms are stories and bugs are dragons.
For early-career engineers, CS students, and self-taught devs who learn best through stories.
Enter a narrative world where Gurus, Kings, Tricksters, and Oracles teach algorithms through Panchatantra-style tales. Learn to reason
under pressure, pick the right strategy, and see code as clarity — not chaos.
Leave with mental models for debugging, algorithms, and trade-off decisions..
Your Teachers, Fools, and Future Selves
Guru, Shishya, King, Commander, Scribe, Trickster, Oracle — each one is a mental model. This band is the council that guides every story you’ll read.
The Minds of the Realm
Scroll through the tales and you’ll keep meeting these same thinkers in new crises.
Choose Your Gate into the Kingdom
All paths are connected. Stories discovered in one arc echo in the others — like patterns repeating across a fractal kingdom.
Gentle tales that teach the building blocks: arrays, recursion, greedy choices, backtracking, and more — all as fables of a young Shishya learning to think.
Enter the Gurukul ↗Stories of merchants, generals, and puzzling rulings. Learn to compare strategies, weigh edge cases, and argue for complexity trade-offs like a royal advisor.
Attend the Court ↗When the whole kingdom is on fire, correctness isn’t enough. These tales tackle complex data structures, optimization, and meta-reasoning under extreme pressure.
Face the Crises ↗See the Kingdom as a Graph
Every tale belongs to a region of the kingdom — search, graphs, dynamic programming, combinatorics. The map lets you jump between stories that share the same underlying idea, so concepts reinforce instead of floating alone.
Browse the narrative map ↗The Algorithm Scriptures Library
After each story, the Library records the distilled algorithm: definitions, invariants, complexity, edge-case checklists, and code sketches. Return here when you want to turn a remembered scene into something you can implement in an interview or side-project.
Visit the Algorithm Scriptures ↗How Stories Rewire the Mind
Algorithms are hard to remember in isolation. Stories exploit how your brain already works: characters anchor concepts, conflicts encode trade-offs, and resolutions become reusable strategies. You’re not memorizing tricks — you’re upgrading your decision-making hardware.
Read the philosophy of Chintan ↗Stay for the next constellation.
New tales appear as the kingdom grows — fresh crises, new algorithms, sharper questions. Join the scroll and you’ll get the next story (and its algorithm explanation) delivered straight to your inbox.