Instead, start with the basics and learn to do two things: Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem ...

and process data efficiently using sophisticated data structures and algorithms Design algorithms and analyze their complexity in terms of running time and space usage Create applications that are ...

Basic data structures: Heaps, and Binary Search Trees. Algorithm Design Approaches: Divide and Conquer including analysis using recurrences Greedy Algorithms Dynamic Programming Algorithms Algorithms ...