The primary topics in this part of the specialization are: data structures (heaps, balanced search trees, hash tables, bloom filters), graph primitives (applications of breadth-first and depth-first search, connectivity, shortest paths), and their applications (ranging from deduplication to social network analysis).
Graph Search, Shortest Paths, and Data Structures
Graph Search, Shortest Paths, and Data Structures
This course is part of Algorithms Specialization
Instructor: Tim Roughgarden
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There are 4 modules in this course
Breadth-first and depth-first search; computing strong components; applications.
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Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm.
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Heaps; balanced binary search trees.
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Hashing; bloom filters.
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The best algorithms course available. More on the theoretical side which in my opinion is more important, if theory is understood, implementation becomes second nature.
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I am very confident in the skills I learned. I have read some books on algorithms but this course makes the application so clear regardless of your programing language.
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Reviewed on Jun 8, 2021
Thanks a lot to Prof Roughgarden for great lectures, to course mentors and fellow students for fruitful discussions. It was a hard, but insanely informative course.
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