Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Dynamic Programming, Certificate | Part time online | Coursera | United States
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The Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Dynamic Programming course offered by Coursera in partnership with Stanford is part of the Algorithms Specialization.

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Overview

The primary topics in this part of the  Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Dynamic Programming course offered by  Coursera in partnership with Stanford  are: greedy algorithms (scheduling, minimum spanning trees, clustering, Huffman codes) and dynamic programming (knapsack, sequence alignment, optimal search trees).

Skills You Will Gain

  • Spanning Tree
  • Algorithms
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Greedy Algorithm

Programme Structure

Courses included:

  • Week 1

Two motivating applications; selected review; a scheduling application; Prim's MST algorithm.

  • Week 2

Kruskal's MST algorithm and applications to clustering; advanced union-find (optional).

  • Week 3

Huffman codes;

  • Week 4

Advanced dynamic programming: the knapsack problem, sequence alignment, and optimal binary search trees.

Key information

Duration

  • Part-time
    • 1 days

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Language

English

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Online

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

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General requirements

  • Intermediate Level

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Funding

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