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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 Teguh S

Nov 28, 2016

I have only one feedback: the relation between subsequent weeks are not clear. It feels like I am learning one technique in week 3, and then another in week 4, but why is the technique in week 4 necessary? What are the differences in terms of functionality, between the various techniques? I think these points are not explained quite clearly.

Great course though, thank you very much!

By Saruar M

Oct 22, 2019

Great course with great content.

However the video explanations could be better. It is hard to truly understand the concept through the videos. I just watched the videos to serve as a "roadmap" and to really understand the topics you'd have to read the chapters from the books listed in their reading section.

Still a good course overall and homework assignments are great.

By Karthik R

Oct 26, 2019

The lectures are excellent. However, with reference to the logistics, it would really make sense provide test cases that are run. At least, the test cases should be made available once the student completes the assignment. By looking at the test cases, students can understand better with reference to developing better test cases in the future.

By Abhishek R

Jun 11, 2018

It's a very thought provoking course. I am into job for last 16 years and after getting into leadership role, hardly got into solving problems personally. This refreshed my passion and I connected well. I could not spend as much time as needed but overall I enjoyed the learning and the problem assignment. Worth trying!!

By Kerwin D

Sep 3, 2021

A very challenging course. The suffix tree video would need to be reviewed a couple more times before I would feel confident in understanding the material.

A side note: using yellow-colored fonts should be avoided because they are not clearly discernable against the background of the slides.

By Alexandr F

Aug 21, 2017

Spent a lot of time trying to solve the last advanced task in the last assignment, but never solved it. I'm not sure if there is a mistake in slides or my misunderstanding, but it was really hard. Thanks to all the instructors.

By ANMOL A

Aug 10, 2020

I liked the general composition and structure of the course and also the quality of assignments. I really liked the BWMatching content covered in this course. I feel that the BWmatching algorithm is not very well-known.

By Xi Y

Sep 8, 2016

Still stuck at Problem 5 of Week 1, had to left this problem undone.

Wondering if the mentors or professors can send those who completed the course the standard/reference solution/program via Email???

By Ajit B

Oct 21, 2017

Its a very good course overall. Just felt that towards the end the material got too much to digest, might be a good idea to split the contents of weeks 3 and 4 into 3 or 4 weeks.

By Juan S Z M

Nov 14, 2016

It would be nice if you could deliver the problem's solutions after the course ended. I ran out of ideas for the BetterBWMatching problem and i couldn't overcome the time issues.

By Anirudh A

Dec 30, 2017

A good course giving insight into how important string algorithms are for not only to computer science community but also its use in other disciplines like bioinformatics etc.

By Snehasish S

Jan 25, 2017

Initially the accent was a little bit hard to understand, but after few minutes everything become crystal clear. Extremely useful course content.

By Aakarsh N

Jun 6, 2017

Unfortunately the forums go inactive after the first few iterations of the course. One can still learn by doing the programming assignments

By kishore k b

Sep 2, 2016

Course Content is good. Instructors are not that much active to give answers for the raised questions compared to earlier courses.

By Кирилл И А

Jul 26, 2020

Порой не понятно что конкретно надо описать, либо мой уровень программирования не так хорош, чтобы понимать и воспринимать это!

By Milos M

Apr 29, 2020

An awesome course, though a bit more rushed than the other ones. Luckily with the notes, the assignments can be passed.

By DENIS K

Nov 2, 2018

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

By Chen L

Dec 1, 2017

The programming assignment should be more clean with detailed instruction in each code file.

By S V A

May 30, 2020

week 3 is not understood correctly.

but i read in other source

so i understood perfectly

By Valeriano T

Jul 31, 2017

Very good, although the material in last week is way harder and rushed than the rest.

By Dmitri M

May 9, 2017

I have finished the specialization. This course is mostly useful though challenging.

By Roman E

Jan 29, 2017

Some tasks was hard to understand and solve, but it in general it was good.

By Lee B U

Apr 9, 2020

It was good. But its assignment is easy compared to before lecture things.

By Abdelrhman Y

Dec 2, 2017

very good and useful , but the last week algorithm is very complicated

By Saurab D

Apr 14, 2018

Some of the algorithms are too hard to implement but worth the effort.