Learner Reviews & Feedback for Divide and Conquer, Sorting and Searching, and Randomized Algorithms by Stanford University
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KS
Sep 13, 2018
Well researched. Topics covered well, with walkthrough for exam.le cases for each new introduced algorithm. Great experience, learned a lot of important algorithms and algorithmic thinking practices.
DT
May 26, 2020
Thank you for teaching me this course. I learned a lot of new things, including Divide-and-Conquer, MergeSort, QuickSort, and Randomization Algorithms, along with proof for their asymptotic runtime
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By hoseop k
•Dec 11, 2023
very tough challenge but worth for effort
By Simon R
•Feb 13, 2020
Interesting and well explained. Well done.
By Deepika G
•Apr 26, 2019
Loved the content and detailed lectures.
By Padala R
•Nov 2, 2022
i have good experience in this course
By metikala d
•Nov 1, 2022
I have good experience in this course
By Toader A
•Dec 6, 2020
Mentor help is almost non-existent.
By Dipankar M
•May 10, 2020
Very nice course with good faculty.
By de P S
•Aug 8, 2020
interesting and challenging course
By Suhui L
•Apr 24, 2022
The profofessor speaaks too fast
By Artem S
•Apr 23, 2017
Sometimes too much mathematics.
By Sanul R
•Sep 19, 2018
MORE OF THEORY LESS OF SOLVING
By bhagyshri s
•Sep 14, 2022
very good aproch explained
By Michael L
•Dec 19, 2018
This course is excellent...
By Shouvik G
•Aug 3, 2018
good.but, he is so fast!
By Tejas P
•Jun 14, 2018
well explained sir..!!!
By Tabrez M
•Apr 28, 2020
good explanation
By aashirvad s
•Nov 11, 2022
everything good
By å¼ ä¹‹æ™—(ZhiHan Z
•Aug 27, 2017
so challenging
By Akshar K
•Dec 2, 2022
good course
By Shuvro D
•Sep 10, 2021
good course
By Thà nh N K
•Jun 29, 2019
very hard
By Prachi M
•Jun 25, 2017
Excellent
By E.Naveen K
•Nov 30, 2016
Great
By Parag K D
•Apr 3, 2022
good
By Bianca D
•Jan 26, 2019
Took me way more than 7 hours/week to go through course materials and complete the problem sets and programming assignments. Closer to 10. In general the estimates for how much time each assignment takes is way off (often claiming on the order of minutes, when the reality is for most students (myself included) it is likely on the order of hours).
That said, the programming assignments were challenging and fun (especially trying to do them in JavaScript), and I feel much more comfortable with recursion and Big-Oh.
The forums for the current session are not very active, but there are a lot of old posts from past offerings of the course, and I found that most of the time others had similar questions to me.
The textbook was helpful, but it pretty much has the same content as the lectures with maybe some extra practice and challenge problems. Unfortunately not all solutions to those problems are available, which can be very frustrating (I noticed at least one practice problem with no solution was used on the final exam, so that’s probably why...).
This course is a little more academic than practical in my opinion as a software engineer, but you have to start somewhere.