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The primary topics in this part of the specialization are: data structures (heaps, balanced search trees, hash tables, bloom filters), graph primitives (applications of breadth-first and depth-first search, connectivity, shortest paths), and their applications (ranging from deduplication to social network analysis).
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Week 1
Breadth-first and depth-first search; computing strong components; applications. - Week 2 - Week 2
Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm. - Week 3 - Week 3
Heaps; balanced binary search trees. - Week 4 - Week 4
Hashing; bloom filters.
Instructors
Tim Roughgarden
Professor
Computer Science
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