Algorithms (Data Structures) Bootcamp in C++

Recursion, Backtracking, Dynamic Programming, Graphs, Data Structures, Sorting and Substring Search Algorithms

What you'll learn
understand recursion and stack memory
understand backtracking
understand dynamic programming
understand the fundamental data structures
understand arrays and linked lists
understand stacks and queues abstract data types
understand tree data structures (binary search trees and heaps)
understand hashing and hash-based data structures such as hash tables
understand graph algorithms
understand breadth-first search and depth-first search
understand shortest path problem (Dijkstra's and Bellman-Ford algorithm)
understand substring search algorithms (Rabin-Karp, Knuth-Morris-Pratt and Z algorithms)
understand sorting algorithms

Description
This course is for those who are interested in computer science and want to implement the algorithms and given data structures in C++ from scratch. In every chapter you will learn about the theory of a given data structure or algorithm and then you will implement them from scratch.

Chapter 1: Recursion

theory behind recursion (recursive function calls)

stack memory and heap memory

recursion and stack memory of the OS

recursive problems such as the Towers of Hanoi problem

Chapter 2: Backtracking

what is backtracking

how to solve problems with backtracking

N-queens problem

coloring problem

knight's tour

Chapter 3: Dynamic Programming

overlapping subproblems and dynamic programming

what is "memoization" and "tabulation"?

Fibonacci numbers

knapsack problem

Chapter 4: Data Structures

data structures and abstract data types (ADTs)

arrays

linked lists

stacks

queues

binary search trees

priority queues (heaps)

associative arrays (hash tables)

Chapter 5: Graphs

directed and undirected graphs

graph traversal: breadth-first search and depth-first search

shortest path algorithms

Dijkstra's algorithm

Bellman-Ford algorithm

Chapter 6: Substring Search Algorithms

the most relevant substring search algorithms

naive substring search

Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) substring search algorithm

Rabin-Karp algorithm

Z algorithm (linear pattern matching)

Chapter 7: Sorting

stable sorting and adaptive sorting

comparison based and non-comparison based sorting algorithms

string sorting

bubble sort

selection sort and insertion sort

quicksort

merge sort

counting sort and radix sort

These are the topics we are going to consider on a one by one basis. After every topic there is a Q&A section where you can test your knowledge on the given topics. Thanks for joining my course, let's get started!

Who this course is for:
Intermediate C++ developers curious about algorithms and data structures

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