Name: Delivery Problem
Brand: University of California San Diego
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.7 (54 reviews)

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In this online course we’ll implement (in Python) together efficient programs for a problem needed by delivery companies all over the world millions times per day — the travelling salesman problem. The goal in this problem is to visit all the given places as quickly as possible. How to find an optimal solution to this problem quickly? We still don’t have provably efficient algorithms for this difficult computational problem and this is the essence of the P versus NP problem, the most important open question in Computer Science. Still, we’ll implement several solutions for real world instances of the travelling salesman problem. While designing these solutions, we will rely heavily on the material learned in the courses of the specialization: proof techniques, combinatorics, probability, graph theory. We’ll see several examples of using discrete mathematics ideas to get more and more efficient solutions....

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Nov 19, 2019

A fun conclusion to the specialization that brings all of the mathematics of combinatorics and graph theory together to show how it can be applied to some real world problems.

Mar 21, 2021

This series is great. I am confident to tutor my son in CS now.Thanks UCSD and HSE

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By SUBHADEEP S

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Aug 17, 2020

The course could have allowed the learner to be more independent. Even after solving the quizzes I wasn't absolutely confident that I could repeat the results of the following in a similar circumstance. There was a lot of helper code which allowed for easier solving. I expected a tougher project. But otherwise, a well explained course, but still not a project.

By Xinwei M

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Oct 22, 2023

It would be better if I could have the source code for the assignments. Sometimes when I wanted to debug my code on pycharm, I could not do anything because I did not know how to initialize a graph the assignment was using.