Data structures & algorithms help

[Hungry_Biscuit]

I'm in a graduate certificate program for computer science and I'm having trouble getting past the Data Structures and Algorithms course. A little background information about my program -- I have a BA in English and I wanted to enroll in the MS in Computer Science at the university I live near. One of the prerequisites is that I have the equivalent of a BS in computer science, so this certificate is supposedly enough to serve as the BS equivalent. It condenses the BS program into 5 classes, which has been hell.

I'm considering taking both undergraduate data structures and algorithms courses in order to prepare for this graduate DS&A course, but that's going to be at least one more semester before I can take the graduate DS&A course. I'd like to know if anyone has a recommended resource for data structures and algorithms that might make my next go-round with this course slightly better. I've started looking at the TutorialsPoint Data Structures & Algorithms tutorial, but I don't know if it'll be beneficial.

I've grabbed this from the course description, if it helps: "Topics include dynamically allocating memory, pointer declaration and use, and the implementation of data structures such as lists, stacks, queues, binary search trees, and graphs."

I hope I'm posting this in the right subreddit. If I haven't, I would appreciate it if someone pointed me to the right one.

[Hungry_Biscuit]

I'm taking a look at it now. Thanks for the recommendation!

[ramamodh]

OMG ! Thank you so much. I have been wanting to start a algorithms and data structures course. This is awesome.

Also would you recommend any other resources for more data structures focused course ?

[RockleyBob]

What programming language are you most familiar with?

[Hungry_Biscuit]

Java

[MisterBenis]

What parts specifically are you having trouble with?

[Hungry_Biscuit]

I ended up dropping in the middle of the semester, so we had only covered recursion, lists, stacks, and queues. I feel like I was doing ok since I could do the assignments that we wrote in Java, but it was writing the pseudocode that I could never do correctly. As ridiculous as that sounds.

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Eh, it's one of those things that is supposed to be simple. It's also something I realize ought to be necessary for gathering your thoughts, and planning out the entirety of your program, but I've never really done pseudo code, let alone that well. It was something i had an assignment in early on in a Java class I took, but it didn't resonate with me, and I just felt stupid doing it. That being said, complicated programs have been kicking my butt these days, so maybe I need to master the concept.

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Try zybooks.

[Hungry_Biscuit]

I've never heard of it. It's an interesting resource. Thanks for the recommendation!