Algorithmic Thinking: A Problem-Based Introduction (2020)

I know you said similar discussion, but just in case someone else was confused for longer than they should as I was, this link is not about the same book.

That's not much of a prerequisite.

My first programming class when I was in high school in 1998 had, as one of its in-class assignments to invent an algorithm for sorting an array of numbers and implement it in BASIC. I think most of the class, never having programmed before that semester, did just fine (though good nlogn solutions were not abundant).

That said, I agree that this is probably not the _very_ first book to read to learn algorithms and data structures, as some of the simpler earlier ones seem not to be included.

Does it use any programming language in particular?