Learn Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
Build data structures from scratch and learn how to think through complex algorithms in Python. Practice your hard problem-solving skills and write faster code to feel confident in interviews.
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Lane Wagner
Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.
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32 Hours
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175 Addicting
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What will you learn?
If you've had trouble getting past a hard whiteboarding session, this course is for you. Big-O complexity is arguably the most important concept students learn in a formal computer science degree. You'll build data structures from scratch in Python and improve your problem-solving skills. We'll cover binary trees, linked lists, stacks, graphs and more. This Python course will give you the foundation you need to start your career off on the right foot. After completing this course, you'll be comfortable crushing interview questions and writing performant code.
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Good intro for a self taught dev wanting to learn some basics. Sometimes a maybe a bit to handholding but you are always free to not read all the hints/pseudocode
Sebastian Haidler
Austria
This was legit the hardest boot.dev course I've done. Not in a bad way, just its dense and long. I know I felt like quitting a few times. I took a break mid way though, but I did come back to it and finished it. Stick with it, it was worth the pain.
Justin Richards
Halifax NS. Canada.
This course is NP time
Samuel Mapande
Mars
So much content. It did feel a bit overwhelming at first, but after working through each lesson, going back and revewing previous lessons, and getting feedback from Boots, I feel like I have a much better grasp on so many different data structures and understanding the importance of finding efficient algorithms instead of finding a solution that just works.
Bryce Croft
United States
This was the toughest course I have taken so far on Boot.dev and I enjoyed it
Andrien Ricketts
London, United Kingdom
Good course, but get HELP (Not Answers) from your favorite Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) assistants. Great content, but this course is written to think you have our Masters in C.S. Not beginner friendly, lots of assumptions that you know C.S. inside and out. Hard topics have minimal explanations. But still, it was fun
Pawan
San Jose
this one took patience. there are many complex theories to analyze
Zane Aston
United States
Hard but rewarding definitely
Yahir Molina
Mexico
Very nice course with some tricky problems to solve
Devin Hasler
Bern
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