About this Specialization
Computer science legend Donald Knuth once said “I don’t understand things unless I try to program them.” We also believe that the best way to learn an algorithm is to program it. However, many excellent books and online courses on algorithms, that excel in introducing algorithmic ideas, have not yet succeeded in teaching you how to implement algorithms, the crucial computer science skill that you have to master at your next job interview. We tried to fill this gap by forming a diverse team of instructors that includes world-leading experts in theoretical and applied algorithms at UCSD (Daniel Kane, Alexander Kulikov, and Pavel Pevzner) and a former software engineer at Google (Neil Rhodes). This unique combination of skills makes this Specialization different from other excellent MOOCs on algorithms that are all developed by theoretical computer scientists. While these MOOCs focus on theory, our Specialization is a mix of algorithmic theory/practice/applications with software engineering. You will learn algorithms by implementing nearly 100 coding problems in a programming language of your choice. To the best of knowledge, no other online course in Algorithms comes close to offering you a wealth of programming challenges (and puzzles!) that you may face at your next job interview. We invested over 3000 hours into designing our challenges as an alternative to multiple choice questions that you usually find in MOOCs.
| From | University of California San Diego, National Research University Higher School of Economics, HSE University via Coursera |
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| Hours | 188 |
| Instructors | Alexander S. Kulikov, Daniel M Kane, Pavel Pevzner, Neil Rhodes, Michael Levin |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Programming Data Science Science |
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Courses in this Specialization
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This online course covers basic algorithmic techniques and ideas for computational problems arising frequently in practical applications: sorting and searching, divide and... Coursera | University of California San Diego, National Research University Higher School of Economics, HSE University |
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Data Structures (You were viewing this course) A good algorithm usually comes together with a set of good data structures that allow the algorithm to manipulate the data efficiently. In this online course, we consider the... Coursera | University of California San Diego, National Research University Higher School of Economics, HSE University |
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If you have ever used a navigation service to find optimal route and estimate time to destination, you've used algorithms on graphs. Graphs arise in various real-world situations... Coursera | University of California San Diego, National Research University Higher School of Economics, HSE University |
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World and internet is full of textual information. We search for information using textual queries, we read websites, books, e-mails. All those are strings from the point of view... Coursera | University of California San Diego, National Research University Higher School of Economics, HSE University |
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Advanced Algorithms and Complexity In previous courses of our online specialization you've learned the basic algorithms, and now you are ready to step into the area of more complex problems and algorithms to solve... Coursera | University of California San Diego, National Research University Higher School of Economics, HSE University |
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Genome Assembly Programming Challenge In Spring 2011, thousands of people in Germany were hospitalized with a deadly disease that started as food poisoning with bloody diarrhea and often led to kidney failure. It was... Coursera | University of California San Diego, National Research University Higher School of Economics, HSE University |
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| From | University of California San Diego, National Research University Higher School of Economics, HSE University via Coursera |
|---|---|
| Hours | 188 |
| Instructors | Alexander S. Kulikov, Daniel M Kane, Pavel Pevzner, Neil Rhodes, Michael Levin |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Programming Data Science Science |
Careers
An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile (33rd - 99th).
Choice Academies Secretary $42k
Member Choice Representative $46k
Multiple Jobs $51k
CSR Gold Choice $54k
Hiring multiple Freshers $57k
Multiple posistions $69k
Multiple IT Openings $72k
Multiple Titles $72k
Multiple roles $74k
Multiple Java openings $75k
Choice Fund Operations $80k
Senior Brand Marketing - Travelers Choice $148k
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