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About the Course

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 of computer science. To make sense of all that information and make search efficient, search engines use many string algorithms. Moreover, the emerging field of personalized medicine uses many search algorithms to find disease-causing mutations in the human genome. In this online course you will learn key pattern matching concepts: tries, suffix trees, suffix arrays and even the Burrows-Wheeler transform....

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CS

Jul 7, 2019

Very good course. String algorithms are very important in day today life and one should really know how to solve command problems related to it. This course have described everything so well.

PA

May 12, 2020

course content was great but i personally feels some difficulties in the implementation part so the course is meant to be more implementation oriented . thank you for the wondorful course

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By Bjornn B O F F

Sep 11, 2017

Really nice course!

By Undisputed _

May 22, 2020

Thank you so much

By DHASADE A B

Jun 20, 2017

Very nice course!

By Saurabh S

Oct 19, 2021

Very Good Course

By Sangeeth S V

Sep 8, 2020

Amazing videos.

By Lie C

Jul 5, 2018

a little hard

By Harekrishna P

Oct 22, 2020

it was great

By Ivan Y C M

Aug 31, 2020

great course

By Manikant R

Jun 3, 2020

Great course

By Weidong X

Aug 25, 2016

Good course!

By Sarath K C M

Oct 23, 2018

good course

By MANCHALA L

Aug 19, 2020

Excellent.

By Musheer A

Jan 12, 2017

Very Good

By Elena N

Mar 20, 2022

Very good

By vivek c

Feb 9, 2024

too good

By Kadam r R

Sep 21, 2023

awesome

By Hoang Q T

Jul 5, 2021

Great!

By Md. R Q S

Sep 10, 2020

great

By Hariharan S

Mar 18, 2024

nice

By Jasmeet K

Feb 7, 2024

good

By Greg G

Feb 14, 2020

A fairly good course in the specialization. A pretty hard one though, with quite a bit of confusion. Partially, because these string algorithms are pretty complex (and ingenious). Sometimes the teachers are confusing, sometimes the slides, the starter files etc. Pavel is an energetic speaker but it's hard to follow his lectures, often key information was missing to get the grasp of something. Michael's lectures are OK as always, and his slides are good to refer back to. Generally, I would have appreciated more examples and more verbose explanations. Nevertheless, at this point in the specialization, you are expected to be able to look up some resources on your own if something is missing.

By Emalayan

Jan 25, 2017

The course contents we useful and easy to learn for the most part. The assignments and spot quizzes helped a lot to understand the string algorithms. I appreciate all the effort the instructors put to create the course materials.

Few things to improve:

1) Some of videos in week3 and 4 were hard to understand due to English speaking skills. I found a lot of grammar mistakes in the subtitles and the interactive transcripts.

2) Please consider adding more contents like Boyer Moore algorithm, regular expression and etc.

By Ananth N

Aug 6, 2018

Really great course covering material that is not usually covered in algorithms courses, which is fantastic! The only feedback I have is that in some of the videos (the later ones on Burrows Wheeler), the material is covered extremely fast. I had to look at a lot of external resources because it was too fast.

As for the programming assignments and other material, absolutely brilliant. I learnt a lot and I am planning to do another course in the specialization.

By Ganesan P

Jun 13, 2018

i enjoyed the course. The course lecture for week 3 and week 4 can do better with presentations. One looses focus very quickly when the instructor keeps speaking, but the material itself is not hard. I had refer to outside material to understand the lecture and had to spend time. I would recommend Ben Langmeade lectures for to get grip on BWT and excellent lecture on KMP and Maben Meyers algorithm intro by Robert Sedgwick.

By Papp P A

Nov 20, 2016

Quite an interesting and well-organised course, giving a detailed overview of the pattern matching problem and solutions for it (on the other hand, if you are expecting to see a wide variety of string problems, the course title is misleading).

Assignments and quizes are also likeable (although the pseudocodes in the slides and the code skeletons for the solutions contain quite a number of mistakes).