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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Algorithms, Part I by Princeton University

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About the Course

This course covers the essential information that every serious programmer needs to know about algorithms and data structures, with emphasis on applications and scientific performance analysis of Java implementations. Part I covers elementary data structures, sorting, and searching algorithms. Part II focuses on graph- and string-processing algorithms. All the features of this course are available for free. People who are interested in digging deeper into the content may wish to obtain the textbook Algorithms, Fourth Edition (upon which the course is based) or visit the website algs4.cs.princeton.edu for a wealth of additional material. This course does not offer a certificate upon completion....

Top reviews

RM

May 31, 2017

This is a great class. I learned / re-learned a ton. The assignments were challenge and left a definite feel of accomplishment. The programming environment and automated grading system were excellent.

CS

Oct 26, 2021

Incredible learning experience. Every programmer in industry should take this course if only to dispel the idea that with the advent of cloud computing exponential algorithms can still ruin your day!

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By Manjeet a

Nov 25, 2023

nyc

By Zeba F

Oct 30, 2021

hyy

By 郑明君

Jun 29, 2017

还好了

By Monica S M G

Jan 14, 2022

no

By anusha m

Jun 6, 2020

..

By Batthula E

Nov 1, 2024

4

By Bhavagna C

Mar 26, 2023

v

By Yashwanth R

Feb 19, 2023

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By HA

May 5, 2023

The course provides a broad overview of essential data structures and algorithms in an easily comprehensible manner and without delving too much into mathematical proofs. However, despite the good lectures and an elegant, concisely-written accompanying Java library that implements almost all the demonstrated algorithms in the course, learners would benefit much more if the programming assignments are easier, or the assignments are provided with more guidance. This is because these assignments seem specifically designed for university students and not Coursera learners, and indeed in the official course taught at Princeton, some of the same assignments even require working with a partner. Furthermore, the course seems to take a passive approach in developing learners' understanding of its algorithms by providing the written code (again, very concise and easy to understand) and learners peek behind the code instead of implementing it themselves; this may work well for an introductory course, but does not solidify some tricky concepts as well as requiring students for implementations based on the lectures and slides.

By Chao C

Sep 1, 2022

Everything was great in this course, only complaint was the collinear points assignment. For some reason, the auto-grader was messing up and you had to have the LineSegment.java file in the zip file, but if you did it normally with or without the LineSegment.java file in the zip you will get a 0, since the auto-grader will complain. There was no mentor that helped with the problem (There was another thread that has since been deleted). It was only until another user mentioned putting everything in LineSegment after the BruteCollinearPoints and FastCollinearPoints. However, this approach is generally not a good practice since you now have two outer classes in two different files, and the class LineSegment is the same in both. It also means that you will always lose 5% due to style checks, since we are forced to put the class of LineSegment into each java files (Brute and Fast). Not sure why the auto-gradered needed LineSegment.java when it wasn't part of the requirement. For these reasons, I deducted 2 stars.

By LEE Y M

Oct 1, 2019

As someone who works full time, this course assigns too much work for per week. In addition, instructions for assignments are not clear enough and the link between assignments and lecture content is often not pointed out clearly.

By Priyanshu K

Mar 22, 2021

they must take assignments are compatible to other language also but not only java

because it is not a language course it is a dsa course

By Carlos P

Sep 25, 2020

The topics are discussed in kind of a too broad and generic way. Some lectures are great others are a bit dry.

By Yonatan N

May 1, 2021

The course is really good, but too much time is dedicated to programming rather than actual mathematics

By Israel P

Jun 23, 2021

A strong java background is needed, there is no much documentation about algs4 package

By Deleted A

Jun 29, 2018

its okay-ish...the teacher should use a blackboard..its a better way to teach.

By SHAIK M A

Oct 6, 2021

AFTER COMPLETING THIS COURSE SUCCESSFULLY BUT I DIDNT GET MY CERTICATE

By MUKKAMALA S K

Sep 15, 2023

Allow to do in other advanced programing languages like python

By Tanmay s

Jun 29, 2019

nice and very useful to understand the programming

By Tilak M

Jul 15, 2017

Not very helpful for competitive programming

By Adnan k

May 28, 2020

certificate is not there..

By ilpan

Jun 10, 2018

字幕不好,理解起来有点费力

By KALDARI S

May 6, 2020

nothing

By Pritam D

Apr 9, 2023

good

By Abhishek K

Apr 18, 2022

good