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Advanced Data Structures in Java

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University of California San Diego

Advanced Data Structures in Java

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Curso 3 de 5 em Specialization Programação Java: Design Orientado a Objetos de Estruturas de Dados

How does Google Maps plan the best route for getting around town given current traffic conditions? How does an internet router forward packets of network traffic to minimize delay? How does an aid group allocate resources to its affiliated local partners? To solve such problems, we first represent the key pieces of data in a complex data structure. In this course, you’ll learn about data structures, like graphs, that are fundamental for working with structured real world data. You will develop, implement, and analyze algorithms for working with this data to solve real world problems. In addition, as the programs you develop in this course become more complex, we’ll examine what makes for good code and class hierarchy design so that you can not only write correct code, but also share it with other people and maintain it in the future. The backbone project in this course will be a route planning application. You will apply the concepts from each Module directly to building an application that allows an autonomous agent (or a human driver!) to navigate its environment. And as usual we have our different video series to help tie the content back to its importance in the real world and to provide tiered levels of support to meet your personal needs.

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Introduction to the Course

Welcome to the first week in the third course of our Intermediate Java Programming Specialization. Once again start with introductions, and in particular introduce the unique structure of this course. Also, if you're not sure if this course is right for you, we've got an optional pre-course quiz coming right up that can help you figure out if you're in the right place. If you decide to stay with us (and we really hope you will!) we've got a great backbone project for you: your very own mapping application, inspired by Google Maps! The core data structure throughout this course is graphs, which may very well be the most fundamental data structure in all of computer science. Ready to begin? So are we!

Your path through this course5:02

Concept challenges3:14

Project Prototype5:38

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Leo Porter
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Mia Minnes
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Christine Alvarado
Associate Teaching Professor
Computer Science and Engineering

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>> Hi, I'm Leo Porter.

>> I'm Christine Alvarado.

>> And I'm Mia Minnes.

Welcome to this third course in our intermediate Java Programming and

Data Structures Specialization.

Welcome back to those of you who have been with us from the beginning and

also welcome to those of you just joining us.

We hope you're excited to learn some data structures and

algorithms in the context of a really interesting project.

>> If you were with us for those first two courses,

you've already learned a number of essential skills for a software engineer.

You already know how to organize your code into classes,

how to analyze an algorithm for its efficiency and how to both use and

implement a wide variety of data structures.

In this course, we're gonna be focusing on advanced data structures.

Specifically, actually, just one data structure, graphs.

>> Wait, just one data structure?

That's it? >> Yeah,

it actually turns out that graphs are such a complex topic that they kinda deserve

a course in themselves.

And graphs are one of the most fundamental data structures in all of computer science

and the algorithms associated with them are used in a variety of fields,

not just computer science.

In fact, graphs are such a big topic that actually field in themselves and

the number of people have been successful in their careers just focusing on graphs.

>> Oh, I guess it's probably good for just focusing on graphs then,

such as our last two courses got a little large.

So, it also make sense then that your project is gonna focus on graphs.

You're gonna be build a full scale mapping application with many

of the features you expect from a product like Google Maps, like route planning.

And in fact,

you're going to get to use real world street data that you get to choose.

You're going to be building this application and then putting it into

a front end that we provide that actually uses the Google Maps API.

So in a sense, you really will be building your very own Google Maps.

>> And in the last week of the course, we'll be thinking about some of

the algorithms that are needed for graphs and maps and we'll actually come across

some fundamental problems for which there's no known good algorithms.

And when we say no known good algorithms, we mean no one in the world has found

a good algorithm for solving some of these problems.

So if you go ahead and find some of these solutions,

you'd end up being pretty rich and famous.

>> Yeah, I know when I first learned about these problems,

I was sure that I'd be the one to find the solution that everyone else had missed.

>> Yeah, it's so tantalizing.

We've all looked for it.

The thing is though, that we still need to solve these problems.

So even though there's no known good efficient algorithms for solving them,

we still need to find some way around that.

So in this course, we'll be talking about heuristics and

optimizations that may not give us the best solutions,

but still run pretty fast and give us some sort of an answer.

So we'll talk about these problems's solutions in this course and

we'll also come up with a way of rephrasing some problems and

thinking about different ways of modeling the graph, so

that sometimes something that looked completely intractable becomes solvable.

And we'll think about a particular example in bioinformatics that was done right here

on campus at UC San Diego.

>> So thinking back to the logistics of this course,

a number of your favorite features from our previous courses are returning.

First, you've already heard about the project and it's again,

going to be project based.

We're also gonna allow you still to find your own path for the course.

Finding the right mix then of both challenge and support,

so that you can succeed.

We're also gonna still have UC San Diego learners talking about the concepts and

we're also gonna have Google engineers talking about why those concepts matter

on the job.

>> Ultimately, the skills you learn in this course as well as the the skills you

learned in our prior two courses are gonna prepare you to succeed in a number of

software engineer roles.

Looking ahead to our next course,

we'll give you more skills not only to succeed on the job, but

also to succeed in the interview process, but that's getting ahead of ourselves.

This course is all about graphs.

So let's get started with those.

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