PG
Very well explained and the exercises truely checks your understanding. The level of hardness of this course is medium-hard. So definitely learned a lot.

World and internet is full of textual information. We search for information using textual queries, we read websites, books, e-mails. All those are strings from the point of view of computer science. To make sense of all that information and make search efficient, search engines use many string algorithms. Moreover, the emerging field of personalized medicine uses many search algorithms to find disease-causing mutations in the human genome. In this online course you will learn key pattern matching concepts: tries, suffix trees, suffix arrays and even the Burrows-Wheeler transform.

PG
Very well explained and the exercises truely checks your understanding. The level of hardness of this course is medium-hard. So definitely learned a lot.
AN
Unfortunately the forums go inactive after the first few iterations of the course. One can still learn by doing the programming assignments
KB
Course Content is good. Instructors are not that much active to give answers for the raised questions compared to earlier courses.
SS
Initially the accent was a little bit hard to understand, but after few minutes everything become crystal clear. Extremely useful course content.
RS
I only wish I could get an 'gold-standard' sample of the programs I wasn't capable of writing after course completion, so I can see where I made my mistakes.
YB
Great course, and part of a great specialization. Lesson are well constructed, and the assignments reflect the lectures very well.
CS
Very good course. String algorithms are very important in day today life and one should really know how to solve command problems related to it. This course have described everything so well.
AB
Its a very good course overall. Just felt that towards the end the material got too much to digest, might be a good idea to split the contents of weeks 3 and 4 into 3 or 4 weeks.
XY
Still stuck at Problem 5 of Week 1, had to left this problem undone.Wondering if the mentors or professors can send those who completed the course the standard/reference solution/program via Email???
AF
Takes your understanding of string algorithms to the next level and gives you new ideas of handling large amount of memory intensive tasks.
PG
great course, interesting concepts and very well delivered content from lecture videos. challenging and rewarding programming assignments.
TN
The professor explained clearly as usual. The first 3 weeks is not too hard but final week took me really long time to understand.