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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 Mohit M

May 11, 2023

Very informative course which includes some of this some of that, love the part where dynamic problems have to be tackled. I now know that why coders say "Programming mostly consists of bugs finding and fixing them".

By Md S A

Aug 21, 2020

It's one of the awesome courses available in Coursera where you can learn different types of algorithms for solving complicated problems in an easy way. It also taught me how to solve any problem in an efficient way.

By Jatin S

Jun 18, 2020

The dynamic programing part was not up to the mark. I had to go through many lectures on youtube (specially of MIT) to understand the same topics. However, the Placing Parenthesis problem was explained properly.

By HZ

Jun 9, 2018

Great Algorithm course. It would be better if they can give more general and helpful guidelines on design Dynamic Programming Algorithm because it is really hard to come up with the correct recurrence relations.

By Ali T

Aug 8, 2023

One problem that I felt was limitation on submits, for example when I submitted three times I couldn't submit for 8 hours! And because usually reaching to a correct code needs a few submits, it was a problem.

By Sanjana N

Aug 29, 2020

The course was really helpful for me to understand Algorithms which is the basics of programming. However, I feel the 'dynamic programming' part had to be elaborated a bit more. It seemed a little bit rushed.

By Adam D

Jan 13, 2020

Great for review of algorithms. I've seen most of these in university Algorithms courses, but this was a great refresher. Coming back to these now, I have a greater understanding than when I first saw them.

By Վարդան Գ

Feb 10, 2019

There are great subjects and in general the course are great too. the only thing that i would like to mention is that there are some places that should be explained more deeply especially in case of week 6.

By Kaleta K

Jul 10, 2023

This is a challenging course, but fun, too. Dynamic programming is especially challenging to me, but it became more understandable, especially under the very skilled teaching by Dr. Kulikov. Thank you!

By MAYANK K

Jul 7, 2020

It was a good course on algorithms, having many programming problems to practice including some standard problems. Which helps in building concepts and can use these concepts for solving many variations.

By Hasan_Saju

May 20, 2020

This is a very good course to learn some the basics of algorithms. It is also good for people who want to polish their algorithm skill. Very good for learning Dynamic Programming and sorting techniques.

By Vikash K

Mar 2, 2019

good technique implemented for learning and exploring about big data(primitive) handling, and other study stuffs and additional slides are quite helpful to understand algorithm and its implementation.

By Zamirbek A

Feb 3, 2018

The content is full and helpful. I've learned a lot.

Some instructors should've used the marker while explaining to walk through the codes instead of just putting a slide and talking on the background.

By Iakov L

Dec 4, 2016

Great course. I would suggest to improve pronunciation of some of the lecturers, add more material, lower the concentration of the material (by prolonging or splitting the course). Great work, thanks!

By Jules K

Aug 2, 2016

As the title suggests, this course will give you some tools/techniques in terms of algorithms design and implementation. You will probably also learn from doing the programming assignments. Enjoy!

By Allen F

May 17, 2020

Great course for stepping into algorithms. But some portions have bad lectures like for example explaining the theoritical reasoning for finding safe move in week 3 greedy algorithm is very poor.

By Victor C

Oct 16, 2019

Content and explanations are absolutely great, the only thing that need to be improved is the way of working with exercises, would be great to have something similiar like HackerRank or leetCode.

By SAPTADEEP D

Jul 6, 2020

Pretty good course on algos . I have already done algorithms in college and know in depth about it and is doing it to get a certificate just for a job .

I am impressed by the way of teaching .

By Sameer U

Sep 2, 2019

It becomes very hard to cope up with the course at the end. I hope more explanations were provided so that we can understand the concepts with more clarity. Nevertheless it was a good course.

By Pinak D

Jan 5, 2020

This course is very helpful as it teaches you the various ways to solve the problem. Also, it gives details explanation of the algorithms taught in the course. I really liked this course!!

By Pavel O

Sep 6, 2016

Good collection of task and learning materials. Definitely worth it! More numbers theory and algorithms reading could be included. But agree, it better to read books referenced.

Thank you!

By Hiền C

Jul 26, 2023

Thank you for such great course, though your explanation is understandable, but you may want to try mapping the examples into the pseudo code so it's much easier to understand and follow.

By Verim A

Feb 19, 2022

Loved the introduction and the examples. Dynamic programming could have been elaborated more in detail though.

The concept of 2 and 3-D tables should have been explained more in depth.

By Navneet D

Jul 17, 2020

The accent of the tutors was the only problem I faced...but that can be overcome by the subtitles. Otherwise a benefiting course to the enrolled students and the ones who want to enroll

By Herman H M C

May 14, 2016

More information should be given for the failed test cases. Is a waste of time to find bug if you don't know what the bug is. ie test case 4/13 in the minimal dot product assignment