C Programming: The Basics You Need to Know
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This course is part of Accelerated Computer Science Fundamentals Specialization
Instructor: Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider
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In this course, you will learn new data structures for efficiently storing and retrieving data that is structured in an ordered sequence. Such data includes an alphabetical list of names, a family tree, a calendar of events or an inventory organized by part numbers. The specific data structures covered by this course include arrays, linked lists, queues, stacks, trees, binary trees, AVL trees, B-trees and heaps. This course also shows, through algorithm complexity analysis, how these structures enable the fastest algorithms to search and sort data.
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Reviewed on Oct 22, 2019
The lectures are good and elaborate. Some of the exercises are very confusing though. Overall a good introduction to data structures.
Reviewed on Jan 22, 2021
The material covered is explained very well, but it feels like these UIUC courses are light in terms of total material per course.
Reviewed on Nov 4, 2020
Really good course, Makes you understand the intuition of the data structures pretty clear. The exams and assignment for week 4 seems a bit rushed, Could have been better
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