Competitive Programming

Master the Theory and Application of Algorithms and Data Structures to Excel in Programming Contests
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English
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Software Engineering
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Competitive Programming
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11.5 hours
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Feb 2022
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What you will learn

Competitive Programming

Algorithms

Data Structures

Programming

Merge Sort, QuickSort, Count Sort, Bucket Sort

Linear Search, Binary Search, QuickSelect, Two Pointer Technique

Stacks, Queues, Hash Tables, Hash Sets, Heap-Based Structures, Binary Search Tree-Based Data Structures, Coordinate Compression, Custom Comparators

Hash Functions, Collisions, Rabin-Karp, Sliding Window Technique

Greedy Algorithms

Iterative Complete Search, Backtracking, Permutations, Subsets, Pruning

Divide and Conquer, Binary Search the Answer, the Bisection Method

Dynamic Programming: Competitive Approach, Top-Down and Bottom-Up DP, Space Optimisation, Prefix Sums, Backtracking to Find Solutions

Graph Representation: Adjacency Lists, Adjacency Matrices, Edge Lists, Weighted and Unweighted Graphs

Graph Exploration: Breadth-First Search (BFS), Depth-First Search (DFS), Connected Components, Multi-Source BFS

Directed Graphs and Cycles: Topological Sort, Strongly Connected Components, BFS for Single-Source Shortest Paths

Shortest Paths: Dijkstra, Floyd-Warshall's, Bellman-Ford and Negative-Weight Cycles, Arbitrages and the Logarithm Trick

Trees: Special Properties, Faster Shortest Paths, Diameter, Minimum Spanning Trees

Union-Find Disjoint Sets: Optimised Implementation, Kruskal's Algorithm, Minimum Spanning Tree Variants

Strings: Dynamic Programming on Strings, Longest Common Subsequence, Edit Distance, Longest Palindromic Substring, Tries, Suffix Tries

Game Theory: States and Transitions, Minimax for Optimal Game Playing, Dynamic Programming To Recover Optimal Strategies

Approaching Interactive Problems

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4/2/2021
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