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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Data Structures by University of California San Diego

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About the Course

A good algorithm usually comes together with a set of good data structures that allow the algorithm to manipulate the data efficiently. In this online course, we consider the common data structures that are used in various computational problems. You will learn how these data structures are implemented in different programming languages and will practice implementing them in our programming assignments. This will help you to understand what is going on inside a particular built-in implementation of a data structure and what to expect from it. You will also learn typical use cases for these data structures. A few examples of questions that we are going to cover in this class are the following: 1. What is a good strategy of resizing a dynamic array? 2. How priority queues are implemented in C++, Java, and Python? 3. How to implement a hash table so that the amortized running time of all operations is O(1) on average? 4. What are good strategies to keep a binary tree balanced? You will also learn how services like Dropbox manage to upload some large files instantly and to save a lot of storage space!...

Top reviews

DG

May 23, 2016

I like this course very much! Rope is the cleverest task I have ever done! Of course, I hope in future I will work on even more difficult problems, but this is pretty good already for me as a student!

PS

Jul 9, 2020

I think the course content and assignments were great. A suggestion though, it will be more helpful if there are more and varied corner cases that would save time spent in thinking and making cases.

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By John B

Jun 14, 2018

The module on dynamic arrays was not well organized or explained, but otherwise a great course.

By varun r

May 27, 2019

Very good insights in the data structures. There can be more focus on linked List, Graphs etc.

By ROHIT K

Oct 15, 2019

Very informational course, really a great one. THANKS Coursera and Higher School Of Economics

By Amr E

Jun 29, 2020

the assignments are amazing also the content

but some of the sections are not well explained

By Mayank B

Jan 15, 2018

Very good course, only problem is the little help offered by mentors in the discussion forum

By Saruar M

Apr 23, 2019

Overall a good course. In my opinion the hash-tables and BSTs material was a little rushed.

By Sahidul C

Dec 24, 2018

Less diagramatic explaination.....making it hard for some concepts to grab.....overall good

By Abdulrahman H M

Nov 24, 2019

needs more illustrative videos for presenting the powerful applications of data structures

By daniel k

Dec 27, 2017

Good course. I personally think stress test code should be included with the starter code.

By Thummanoon K

May 10, 2016

Good course, but the problem set is too small. They will be much better if they are more.

By Aalisha S

May 28, 2021

pseudocode for splay trees could have had more explanation to it. (probably graphically)

By R.Athindran

Aug 17, 2016

The optional videos are not allotted enough time. Those concepts are difficult to grasp.

By Wendell H

Feb 28, 2019

Good material, good problems. Although discussion forums don't seem to be very active.

By divya m

Jan 13, 2019

would be nice if it was mandatory to solve all the problem of the advanced topics

By Rahul D

Mar 13, 2018

The course material is good.

The assignments were not completely testing knowledge

By Nandini K

Jul 11, 2020

The course was good giving adequate knowledge of data structures in programming.

By Shubham C

Aug 20, 2020

First take an audit if teaching style suits you then only go for full course.

By Ayaz K

Jun 27, 2019

Overall course is excellent but programming assignments are not a cup of tea.

By Tizeng Y

Oct 16, 2018

The assignment should provide more problems related to BST and other trees.

By Aldunin D A

May 5, 2018

Some lectures have extremely not balanced sound level and really hurt ears.

By Brian

Aug 14, 2020

There was this one instructor who had heavy accent but overall good course

By Ranjit K

Jan 15, 2022

Very Good Course To understand data structures deeply. good explaination.

By Saurab D

Mar 17, 2018

The programming exercise in hashing should have been more challenging.

By S S K

Jun 6, 2016

the teachers are good and the visualization of lectures are very nice.

By Aamir F

Jul 22, 2020

BST videos were quite fast. i had to take youtube tutorial for that.