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
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Graph Search, Shortest Paths, and Data Structures
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Instructor: Tim Roughgarden
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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.
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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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Tim really did an awesome job preparing the lectures for this course. Material was presented quickly, efficiently, and engagingly. I highly recommend this class.
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