This is a practical beginner friendly and coding focused online
course that will help you improve your programming skills. The
course runs over six weeks with two hour video lectures every
week with live interactive coding using the python
programming language. You will get a chance to practice and
improve your coding skills with weekly programming
assignments consisting of real interview questions. This course
will help you prepare for coding interviews and you can earn a
verified certificate of accomplishment. This course assumes
very little background in programming and mathematics but
you still do need a little bit for instance you do need to know
basic programming with python things like variables data types
loops and functions and do n't worry if you don't know them
already you can click through and follow these links. This
course takes a coding focused approach towards learning and
in each notebook or each tutorial we will focus on solving one
problem and then learn the techniques algorithms and data
structures to device device. The course is set up a machine for
you on the cloud using software called binder it 's an open
source software.
The strategy and technique that we're learning here will be
widely applicable and we will soon use it to solve harder
problems now before while you think about the problem and
before we start solving it i just want to talk about why you
should learn data structures and algorithms. Whether you're
pursuing a career in software development or data science it 's
almost certain that you will be asked programming problems
like reversing a linked list or balancing a binary tree in a
technical interview. A systematic strategy that you should
apply in interviews or in coding problems on encoding
assessments or in general whenever you are faced with a
problem like this so here 's the strategy that we will apply step
one state the problem clearly identify the input and output
formats. Step two come up with some example inputs and
outputs and try to cover all the edge cases step three comes
up with a correct solution for the problem it can be as simple
as possible and state it in plain english step four and this is
optional sometimes implement the solution and test it using
example inputs. The first step is to state the problem clearly
and precisely in abstract terms because computers do n't
understand people. Computer science can represent the
sequence of cards as a list of numbers. We need to write a