Learner Reviews & Feedback for Graph Search, Shortest Paths, and Data Structures by Stanford University
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DS
Mar 30, 2020
Awesome course! Professor Roughgarden is fantastic. The material was appropriately challenging. Perfect amount of rigor. Only one minor squabble: the hash problem set is terribly misleading.
TG
Dec 01, 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.
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By Ashish D S
•Aug 06, 2018
Excellent course!
By Luiz C
•Mar 19, 2018
Fantastic course!
By Sui X
•Jun 05, 2019
excellent course
By Bastin J
•May 28, 2018
Fantastic Course
By Deleted A
•Oct 15, 2017
Excellent course
By Khan M A
•Jul 16, 2017
Very Nice Course
By luketerry
•Jul 13, 2017
It's so helpful!
By 秦天
•Jun 12, 2019
amazing course
By Karim E
•Jan 15, 2018
Awesome course
By Rishabh K
•Jan 11, 2018
just awesome!
By Ryan S
•Jun 28, 2017
Great course
By Saurav M
•Mar 22, 2019
NIce course
By Maxim M
•Dec 08, 2019
brilliant!
By Misrab F
•Jun 24, 2018
great fun!
By Madhurya R
•Sep 14, 2019
Great job
By clayton w
•Feb 03, 2019
excellent
By Neo
•May 13, 2019
Awesome!
By goldkeytom
•Jan 03, 2018
excelent
By ryan
•Sep 25, 2017
Awesome!
By Yisheng Y
•Dec 01, 2016
Awesome!
By Jingyuan W
•Nov 13, 2019
Great！
By dynasty919
•Feb 20, 2018
nice!
By Sergey T
•May 30, 2020
This course was useful to me, thanks. As usual, I liked lectures and programming assignments provided, except for week 4.
I didn't like week 4 materials. It was a huge disappointment to me when the theory about hashing appeared to be too 'theoretical' with absolutely no code at all. It's just some high concept maths and nothing more. It is a real disaster if you are a 'doer' because you'll probably get almost nothing from 4th-week lectures and will be ought to learn about hashing somewhere else. This comes to a question of whether you need to learn hash tables here (and pay your money) or not. So if you have never encountered hash tables in your life, you might want to learn it before you take this course. In that case, consider it as a requirement for your enrollment.
By Christopher E
•Sep 21, 2019
The only reason this is not a 5-star review is because of the Week 4 programming assignment. The point of Week 4 is to demonstrate the usefulness of using a hash table when frequent look-ups are necessary. However, the constants inherent to the assignment problem make the suggested algorithm take anywhere from 30 min to hours. Meanwhile, there is another algorithm that can accomplish the task in mere seconds, but this is not apparent without scouring the message boards for help. I feel it would be better to either rethink the assignment to bring it more in line with the point of the teaching material, or deliver some instruction on the actually useful algorithm, which is fascinating in its own right.
Otherwise, this course is excellent as usual.
By Gonzalo G A E
•Apr 22, 2020
In general, the specialization is great (it's challenging, full of interesting material, and the Prof. is interesting yet light to watch for hours in video). However, two of the programming exercises in this course seemed required solutions that were not related to the covered topics and for which the week's material provided sub-optimal (hence ultra slow) solutions. That was a bit frustrating. Nonetheless, it forced me to explore more about the algorithms, data structures and other solutions.
Still a great and challenging course!
