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About the Course

This online course covers basic algorithmic techniques and ideas for computational problems arising frequently in practical applications: sorting and searching, divide and conquer, greedy algorithms, dynamic programming. We will learn a lot of theory: how to sort data and how it helps for searching; how to break a large problem into pieces and solve them recursively; when it makes sense to proceed greedily; how dynamic programming is used in genomic studies. You will practice solving computational problems, designing new algorithms, and implementing solutions efficiently (so that they run in less than a second)....

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SG

Jan 19, 2017

I liked the fact that the algorithms are not just the introductory searching and sorting algorithms. The assignments are fairly difficult (I have decent scripting experience), but not impossibly so.

BD

Jan 19, 2021

The course was really amazing which provided deep knowledge from basic to advance that how algorithms works and how to design algorithms. Thanks to all the expert teachers who taught in this course.

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By Sahana K

Jul 23, 2020

Good

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Jun 17, 2020

good

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Jun 4, 2020

nice

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Apr 11, 2020

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Mar 29, 2020

NICE

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Mar 29, 2020

Nice

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Jan 28, 2020

nice

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Oct 9, 2019

well

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Sep 23, 2019

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Jul 10, 2018

good

By Ganapathi N K

Jan 24, 2018

Fine

By Kunle B

Sep 29, 2017

good

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Mar 19, 2016

good

By Sumanth M P

Aug 30, 2021

ok

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Aug 17, 2021

NAA

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Aug 16, 2021

NAA

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Aug 16, 2021

NAA

By Ivan G

Aug 15, 2020

fun

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Jul 31, 2020

4.8

By 伍宇恒

Sep 23, 2018

非常好

By KUNDALIYA V

Nov 15, 2021

NA

By Ishwar L K

May 21, 2022

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By Igor S

Dec 20, 2016

The course content is very good and is must have if you missed that stuff in colledge. It teaches of algorithmic analysis so you know which algorithm is more efficient, gives some examples of cool techniques and provides challenges to apply those techniques.

However, there are things that I hate about this course. First of all this is about forums. They are broken down into sessions and there are too little people on each session. Staff provides exactly zero help. If you are stuck, you have no hope on these forums and will need to find help somewhere else.

Programming assignments are great, they are relevant, interesting, challenging and the automatic grader system estimates not only if we get the correct answer but also the efficiency of our algorithm. There have been some problems in divide and conquer section though. I've been struggling with implementing binary search (which is quite a simple algorithm!) in JavaScript to pass the assignment for weeks. I've written and rewritten it in different ways, done hundreds of manual and automated tests, posted on course forums (receiving zero answers) and have gotten the same error again and again. I was able to solve this only by switching to Python. I am quite sure there is a mistake in the test case, which cost me hours and hours. Overall, the programming assignments are very time consuming and lack of support and not showing test cases make things worse.

I do not like that we cannot see the test case where our program fails. Perhaps, if you could figure out a test case that might fail in your program that would make you a better programmer but I felt more like it was wasting of our time. The main thing is to analyze the test case that fails and understand why, it will bring the same result without wasting time and feeding anger,

Some lecturers have a strong Russian accent, that is very distracting. It is not a lot of work to take some English pronunciation training before making a course, isn't it?

Overall, I enrolled for the specialization and planned to buy it in full but bought only this course to start with. Now I am glad I did that because now I am not sure about buying the other courses and will look somewhere else first.

Anyway, the creators of the course have done a great job, which is highly appreciated. I believe you can make this course much better by fixing the issues I pointed above.

By Deeprashmi N

Jul 20, 2018

The course is awesome and hold immense value for anyone who is new to the field of Computer Science or just wants to add to his or her repertoire the amazing world of Algorithms. Algorithms are the basic tool of any Computer Scientist and are still in constant demand and development. The course develops the knowledge of this very important topic starting off from the basic and slowly but steadily building towards the apex.

That said, the course sometimes becomes a bit heavy and multiple reviews of the same video is needed to completely understand a topic. Algorithms is not a topic made for spoon feeding and this course treats it this way.

The professors are awesome, each one with their own idiosyncrasies which is both fun and interesting at the same time. The level they go to to make a topic clear is appreciable. On this note I would really like to mention Prof. Alexander Kulikov for his brilliant way of teaching and making each topic his playground with his real life scenarios and "toy examples".

Overall, this course has blown me away. Thanks to all that made this course and in the end thanks to Coursera.