Advanced Data Structures and Algorithm Optimization

About this course

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Elevate your algorithmic expertise by mastering advanced data structures and optimization techniques used in high-level problem solving. This course focuses on recursion, trees, heaps, dynamic programming, and graph algorithms, enabling you to design efficient and scalable solutions for complex computational challenges. You will begin with recursion and backtracking, learning how to systematically explore solution spaces through problems like subsets, combination sum, and N-Queens. The course then transitions into binary trees and binary search trees, covering traversal techniques, structural properties, and real-world problem-solving patterns. As you progress, you will explore heaps for priority-based operations and dive deep into dynamic programming to optimize overlapping subproblems. You will also gain insights into greedy strategies, bit manipulation techniques, and graph algorithms, solving problems such as course scheduling and network delay time. This course is designed for learners with a solid foundation in basic data structures and algorithms who want to advance their problem-solving capabilities. It is best suited for intermediate to advanced learners preparing for technical interviews or competitive programming. By the end of the course, you will be able to design optimized algorithms using advanced data structures, apply dynamic programming and graph techniques, and confidently solve complex, real-world coding challenges.

Course objectives

• to provide advanced knowledge in data structures and algorithm optimization
• to prepare students for technical interviews and competitive programming