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About the Course

This online course covers basic algorithmic techniques and ideas for computational problems arising frequently in practical applications: sorting and searching, divide and conquer, greedy algorithms, dynamic programming. We will learn a lot of theory: how to sort data and how it helps for searching; how to break a large problem into pieces and solve them recursively; when it makes sense to proceed greedily; how dynamic programming is used in genomic studies. You will practice solving computational problems, designing new algorithms, and implementing solutions efficiently (so that they run in less than a second)....

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SG

Jan 19, 2017

I liked the fact that the algorithms are not just the introductory searching and sorting algorithms. The assignments are fairly difficult (I have decent scripting experience), but not impossibly so.

BD

Jan 19, 2021

The course was really amazing which provided deep knowledge from basic to advance that how algorithms works and how to design algorithms. Thanks to all the expert teachers who taught in this course.

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By Hasan_Saju

May 20, 2020

This is a very good course to learn some the basics of algorithms. It is also good for people who want to polish their algorithm skill. Very good for learning Dynamic Programming and sorting techniques.

By Vikash K

Mar 2, 2019

good technique implemented for learning and exploring about big data(primitive) handling, and other study stuffs and additional slides are quite helpful to understand algorithm and its implementation.

By Zamirbek A

Feb 3, 2018

The content is full and helpful. I've learned a lot.

Some instructors should've used the marker while explaining to walk through the codes instead of just putting a slide and talking on the background.

By Iakov L

Dec 4, 2016

Great course. I would suggest to improve pronunciation of some of the lecturers, add more material, lower the concentration of the material (by prolonging or splitting the course). Great work, thanks!

By Jules K

Aug 2, 2016

As the title suggests, this course will give you some tools/techniques in terms of algorithms design and implementation. You will probably also learn from doing the programming assignments. Enjoy!

By Allen F

May 17, 2020

Great course for stepping into algorithms. But some portions have bad lectures like for example explaining the theoritical reasoning for finding safe move in week 3 greedy algorithm is very poor.

By Victor C

Oct 16, 2019

Content and explanations are absolutely great, the only thing that need to be improved is the way of working with exercises, would be great to have something similiar like HackerRank or leetCode.

By SAPTADEEP D

Jul 6, 2020

Pretty good course on algos . I have already done algorithms in college and know in depth about it and is doing it to get a certificate just for a job .

I am impressed by the way of teaching .

By sameer

Sep 2, 2019

It becomes very hard to cope up with the course at the end. I hope more explanations were provided so that we can understand the concepts with more clarity. Nevertheless it was a good course.

By Pinak D

Jan 5, 2020

This course is very helpful as it teaches you the various ways to solve the problem. Also, it gives details explanation of the algorithms taught in the course. I really liked this course!!

By Pavel O

Sep 6, 2016

Good collection of task and learning materials. Definitely worth it! More numbers theory and algorithms reading could be included. But agree, it better to read books referenced.

Thank you!

By Hiền C

Jul 26, 2023

Thank you for such great course, though your explanation is understandable, but you may want to try mapping the examples into the pseudo code so it's much easier to understand and follow.

By Verim A

Feb 19, 2022

Loved the introduction and the examples. Dynamic programming could have been elaborated more in detail though.

The concept of 2 and 3-D tables should have been explained more in depth.

By Navneet D

Jul 17, 2020

The accent of the tutors was the only problem I faced...but that can be overcome by the subtitles. Otherwise a benefiting course to the enrolled students and the ones who want to enroll

By Herman H M C

May 14, 2016

More information should be given for the failed test cases. Is a waste of time to find bug if you don't know what the bug is. ie test case 4/13 in the minimal dot product assignment

By KAJAL K

Jun 8, 2020

This is a very helpful and good platform for doing practice because practice makes perfect. Thank you so much to Coursera and the team for these kinds of study stuff and mentoring me.

By Wan N

May 6, 2020

The assignments are quite valuable and with their help, I have improved my algorithmic skills. However, it will be better if the video materials can give a more detailed explanation.

By Yaman T

Jul 17, 2020

good !! but there should be an option of submitting each question during assignment so as we can get an idea of whether we should proceed to next question or have to do some changes.

By Ranjeeta K

Jul 1, 2019

I really liked the course design as it included programming assignments along with course lectures. Except for some errors caused in the submissions, everything else was just fine.

By Matija K

Aug 2, 2017

The programming assignments are great. They are not easy and really make you think and work. Some topics should be better explained. Especially in the Dynamic programming lectures.

By Karan V

Aug 2, 2020

basically it is good but if its website is responsive in mobile phones too then it become easy to view videos in mobile phones as i have faced many difficulty in watching videos.

By Ashish M

Jul 6, 2020

Highly recommended as it helped me a lot in my week areas. I recommend not to skip any portion of the lectures as every part is important. Week 5 and Week 6 are really important .

By Aidar

Sep 19, 2019

Michael Levin should make more slides for explanation (with step-by-step examples) how Alex Kulikov and other mentors did. Also, it was difficult to hear only his broken english.

By Kerem C T

May 15, 2019

Very hard topic explained good. I had to get help from other videos(outside this course) explaining some of the algorithms in detail. Other than it was a good experience overall.

By Ashwin K U

Jan 7, 2021

Great course! well structured questions.

Only improvement needed is speed of lectures is too fast sometimes to understand the problem being discussed and captions are wrong often