Search⌘ K
AI Features
Home
Courses
Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in C++

Solution: Course Schedule

Explore how to solve the Course Schedule problem by applying topological sort and depth-first search algorithms. Understand how to manage course dependencies, detect cycles, and evaluate time and space complexities. This lesson helps you confidently handle prerequisite constraints in coding interview problems.

We'll cover the following...

Statement

You are given an integer, numCourses, representing the total number of courses you need to complete, labeled from 0 to numCourses - 1.

You are also given a prerequisites array, where prerequisites[i] = [a[i], b[i]] indicates that you must take course b[i] first if you want to take the course a[i]. For example, the pair [1,0][1, 0] indicates that to take course ...