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About the Course

This course covers the essential information that every serious programmer needs to know about algorithms and data structures, with emphasis on applications and scientific performance analysis of Java implementations. Part I covers elementary data structures, sorting, and searching algorithms. Part II focuses on graph- and string-processing algorithms. All the features of this course are available for free. People who are interested in digging deeper into the content may wish to obtain the textbook Algorithms, Fourth Edition (upon which the course is based) or visit the website algs4.cs.princeton.edu for a wealth of additional material. This course does not offer a certificate upon completion....

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HM

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The best online course I've taken so far. The autograder really does its job! The tests are so thorough that it always takes me several attempts to finish an assignment, but it is always worth it!

RB

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The course focuses on Java specific implementations of algorithms, so if you're not from a Java background, you would have a little difficulty with the assignments.The course content however is great.

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By Xiang L

Feb 20, 2019

A great thanks to Mr. Robert Sedgewick and Mr. Kevin Wayne. A tribute to Stanford University for providing us such a great course totally for free. The impact of this course is long-lasting and maybe throughout my life as a software developer.

By Chao-Ran W

Oct 15, 2017

My very first course in Coursera and hopefully the first among many that I will proceed to learn from. Never thought I could ever have a chance to learn from such a school as Princeton. My gratefulness is beyond word. Just keep going. Cheers!

By EDGAR F

Aug 16, 2017

A whole new world of possibilities is open through algorithms. This course really unveils the importance of algorithms and the magic behind data management like index and query operations, that makes it possible to model real nature phenomena.

By SHATABDI D C

Aug 25, 2024

very helpful course .But for the programming assignment some topic like Kdtree didnt have any sample's to show. I know that is not necessary .But I realize that it would be helpful if there were any sample input output like other assignment.

By Piotr P

Dec 7, 2020

Excellent source of information about algorithms. A lot of work is required to finish it but it is worth.

And this topic requires a lot of work in the future in order to do research on topics mentioned in this course but it is worth to do so.

By Thomas P

Oct 7, 2018

Excellent course. The lectures are always well-motivated, and well-structured. The assignments are challenging enough, and properly reinforce the material from the lecture. They also force the student to properly work out any and all details.

By Shawn M

Oct 6, 2021

The course has many positives:

1- A high quality content without any errors or ambigiouties

2- A way to validate you learned the content i.e. the tests and autograder

3- allows to work at your own pace

I am so glad I found out about it.

By roya z

May 21, 2019

It is one of the best course I have ever passed. It helped me to see the programming problems from a wider view. I really suggest it to anyone who is eager to be a better programmer and to have more profound knowledge about computer science.

By Rahul A N

Apr 9, 2017

The best course I have taken so far for introducing algorithms. I must say the exercises and programming interview questions made the course more interesting and thoroughly tested my understanding. Cheers to the instructors and the team !!!

By Abhi S

Jun 29, 2020

Course was good amount of challenge. Although some of the instructions were not very clear, I felts they meant to incite curiosity in the student. So that sometimes made me nervous or frustrated but kept busy.

Discussions were very helpful

By AOI K

May 10, 2020

I would like to thank Professor Sedgewick and Mr. Wayne for a well-structured course and excellent assignments. The result of the training will be a clear understanding of the types of algorithms, data structures and their applications.

By Gorbach D V

Oct 11, 2019

Everything was amazing. There is only one thing that upsets me a little. I had a lot of problems sending my homework. When I tried to download my zip archive, nothing happened. Sometimes it took more than 20 attempts to present the result.

By Ashwin R

Aug 25, 2019

Gave more than what was expected. Learned about many important algorithms and data structures in CS, and more importantly, kindled interest in earning about algorithms and encouraged thinking of and improving efficiency of code we write.

By Venkatachalapathi V

Feb 19, 2017

Absolutely wonderful course! Especially the lectures given by Robert! Thanks a lot to Robert, Kevin, and Coursera and all the staff! For this! This is my first Online course ever! And my experience was great all together! Thanks a lot. :D

By Nikhil C B

Jun 28, 2020

The course had a very clear cut explanation of the data structures, where they are used, what are their advantages and disadvantages, the algorithms that are used on the data structure, etc. Overall, the course was worth giving time for.

By 董策

Jan 23, 2018

The course is for someone who really looks for challenge, the assignment is difficult but amazing, if you really trying hard to do it, even it is not 100/100, you can definitely learn much more than you can think of, highly recommended!

By Radovan S

Jul 20, 2017

I would like to thank all the people involved in preparing this course. Thanks to your effort, you created a great piece of study materials, which helped me to refresh some of my skills that are fading with every year since my studies.

By Tobias K

Jun 8, 2024

Great course, with very nice explanations and engaging, exercises which find the right balance between being challenging but not too difficult. At the same time they are interesting and relevant for applications. Highly recommendable!

By Tran N M T

May 17, 2020

Excellent Data Structure and Algorithms course! The explanation is very detailed, and the exercises are hard enough to get familiar with the DS and Algo. One minor part is that the exercise specification can be clearer at some points.

By Aditya K

Sep 9, 2024

I am indebted by this course and its creators. The effort put into this course demands a high price but giving it for free means the creators are visionaries. These people played their part in making the world a better place to live.

By Davies D

Jun 19, 2022

Yes it is difficult, but not impossible. The joy of overcoming the difficulty is unmatched, trust me! The course worth the times i spent on it, especially on the assignments which was very insightful. To both instructors , Thank you!

By Dean N

Aug 13, 2021

Great course, taught by one of the best professors! The way he explains topics make them lucid and just make sense. Assignments are also very interesting to do and we get to apply what we have just learned to some real life problem.

By Aria B

May 26, 2019

This was a really interesting course. Not too difficult to discourage one from learning, and not too easy that you can passively just listen to lectures and pass. The length of the material was appropriate too. I highly recommend it.

By bamboo h

Jul 19, 2022

Great course! Right amount of difficulty on the assignments and such. In addition to understanding the practicalities of certain choices in algorithm arsenals, the course helps to strengthen beginner Java knowledge. Coming from C++.

By Minh H

Aug 11, 2019

Course was fairly demanding and I learned a lot. The assignments are challenging, but some of the frustrations had nothing to do with the mastery of the material. Nonetheless, still a good exercise overall to go through the course.