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Instructor: Tim Roughgarden
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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).
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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Reviewed on Nov 30, 2019
It was an awesome experience to learn from such a teacher. Now I have a much clear view of the graph algorithms. I have enjoyed this course. Thanks to Stanford for offering this course.
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.
Reviewed on Apr 8, 2020
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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