The explanation of suffix arrays and suffix trees could have been more slow and details explanation. I still had to refer videos on youtube to understand those.

It was awesome. I was very surprised and mesmerized while understanding how the great scientists solved these challenging problems!

This was a good course. I mostly understood most of the content

I would be interesting update Algorihm on Strings to construction of suffix arrays in linear time.

I still can't believe that there can be so many algorithms on string pattern matching. Lots of interview questions are based on string algorithms and the I believe that the skills I got from this course is definitely going to help to crack interviews in the future.Moreover, I can implement an efficient search engine efficiently.

This course was not my favorite in the Specialization -- the content just wasn't as interesting, making some of the more demanding problems pretty difficult, but nothing was too difficult, given the excellent preparation delivered via the lectures. Everything you need to know for a problem was given right before!

Still, amazing course.

There are some too hard algorithms to implement, but it worth it. It allows to develop patience, mental skills and self-education. I highly recommend this course, some algorithms described here are crucial for computer science and must have to know.

I think it would be more helpful to trade BWT to more practical Polynomial Hashing tricks. Otherwise good course

good course

some long and complex episode needs more specific examples to help learner visualise