The Unordered Data Structures course covers the data structures and algorithms needed to implement hash tables, disjoint sets and graphs. These fundamental data structures are useful for unordered data. For example, a hash table provides immediate access to data indexed by an arbitrary key value, that could be a number (such as a memory address for cached memory), a URL (such as for a web cache) or a dictionary. Graphs are used to represent relationships between items, and this course covers several different data structures for representing graphs and several different algorithms for traversing graphs, including finding the shortest route from one node to another node. These graph algorithms will also depend on another concept called disjoint sets, so this course will also cover its data structure and associated algorithms.
This course is part of the Accelerated Computer Science Fundamentals Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Orientation; Hashing
Disjoint Sets
Graph Data Structures
Graph Algorithms
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TOP REVIEWS FROM UNORDERED DATA STRUCTURES
Hard topics nicely explained. Wish the lectures cover more content. The assignments were a bit too straightforward.
excelente curso! muy buena explicacion de estructuras de datos. Todo el contenido fue explicado de manera muy interesante!
Great Teacher, although there are still a lot that I need to learn on my own(I come from non-CS background), after hereing these lectures, I feel that I have already learnt a ton.
The last section on graphs seems hurried, everything right up to BFS seemed structured but it felt like there was a sudden pack up.
About the Accelerated Computer Science Fundamentals Specialization
Topics covered by this Specialization include basic object-oriented programming, the analysis of asymptotic algorithmic run times, and the implementation of basic data structures including arrays, hash tables, linked lists, trees, heaps and graphs, as well as algorithms for traversals, rebalancing and shortest paths.
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