Coursera / UC San Diego ยท University
Algorithms on Strings
String algorithms: exact matching, suffix trees, Burrows-Wheeler Transform, and multiple patterns.
- Provider: Coursera / UC San Diego
- Level: Advanced
- Duration: ~4 weeks (5 hrs/week)
- Format: Online
- Certificate: Certificate
- Subject: Computer Science
Skills you build
- Pattern Matching
- Suffix Arrays
- BWT
- Knuth-Morris-Pratt
Where this course fits
On Careery a course is the last step of one arc, not the first. Read your CV against the job you are actually targeting in CV and Job Match, check what that role pays band by band and who is hiring for it in Job Scout and on the salary pages, and what is left is a skill gap with a price attached. Course Path puts those gaps in order and names the course that closes each one. This advanced Computer Science course, at ~4 weeks (5 hrs/week) from Coursera / UC San Diego, is worth enrolling in when the gap it closes is a requirement the postings you are chasing keep repeating, and it is worth skipping when it is not. Judged that way, the certificate becomes evidence against a stated requirement rather than another line on a CV that nobody reads.