Byte-Sized-Chunks: Sorting and Searching Algorithms

Name: Byte-Sized-Chunks: Sorting and Searching Algorithms
Rating: 4.9 (23 reviews)

A visual way to master basic algorithms for strong fundamentals!

(23 ratings)

2,624 students

Created by Loony Corn

Last updated 6/2016

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What you'll learn

Design and implement software that use sorting and searching algorithms
Understand the trade-offs, complexity and use-cases for different types of sort and search algorithms
Visualise - really vividly imagine - the common data structures, and the algorithms applied to them

Requirements

Basic knowledge of programming is assumed, preferably in Java

Description

Note: This course is a subset of our 20+ hour course 'From 0 to 1: Data Structures & Algorithms' so please don't sign up for both:-)

This is an animated, visual and spatial way to learn data structures and algorithms

Our brains process different types of information differently - evolutionarily we are wired to absorb information best when it is visual and spatial i.e. when we can close our eyes and see it
More than most other concepts, Data Structures and Algorithms are best learnt visually. These are incredibly easy to learn visually, very hard to understand most other ways
This course has been put together by a team with tons of everyday experience in thinking about these concepts and using them at work at Google, Microsoft and Flipkart

What's Covered:

Big-O notation and complexity
Sorts: Quick, heap, merge, bubble, selection
Search: Binary searching a sorted list

Who this course is for:

Nope! Please don't enroll for this class if you have already enrolled for our 15-hour course 'From 0 to 1: Data Structures and Algorithms'
Yep! Computer Science and Engineering grads who are looking to really visualise data structures, and internalise how they work
Yep! Experienced software engineers who are looking to refresh important fundamental concepts

Loony Corn

An ex-Google, Stanford and Flipkart team

4.2 Instructor Rating
25,244 Reviews
149,192 Students
67 Courses

Loonycorn is us, Janani Ravi and Vitthal Srinivasan. Between us, we have studied at Stanford, been admitted to IIM Ahmedabad and have spent years working in tech, in the Bay Area, New York, Singapore and Bangalore.

Janani: 7 years at Google (New York, Singapore); Studied at Stanford; also worked at Flipkart and Microsoft

Vitthal: Also Google (Singapore) and studied at Stanford; Flipkart, Credit Suisse and INSEAD too

We think we might have hit upon a neat way of teaching complicated tech courses in a funny, practical, engaging way, which is why we are so excited to be here on Udemy!

We hope you will try our offerings, and think you'll like them :-)