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Problem: Course Schedule

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30 min
Explore the concept of course scheduling by applying topological sort to manage course dependencies. Understand how to analyze prerequisites, model the problem as a directed graph, and determine if all courses can be completed without conflicts. This lesson builds your skills in solving dependency order challenges often encountered in coding interviews.

Statement

You are given an integer, num_courses, representing the total number of courses you need to complete, labeled from 0 to num_courses - 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 11, you have to first take course 00.

Return TRUE if all of the courses can be finished. Otherwise, return FALSE.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq num_courses 1500\leq 1500
  • 00 \leq prerequisites.length 1000\leq 1000
  • prerequisites[i].length =2= 2
  • 00 \leq a[i], b[i] << num_courses
  • All the pairs prerequisites[i] are unique.
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Problem: Course Schedule

Medium
30 min
Explore the concept of course scheduling by applying topological sort to manage course dependencies. Understand how to analyze prerequisites, model the problem as a directed graph, and determine if all courses can be completed without conflicts. This lesson builds your skills in solving dependency order challenges often encountered in coding interviews.

Statement

You are given an integer, num_courses, representing the total number of courses you need to complete, labeled from 0 to num_courses - 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 11, you have to first take course 00.

Return TRUE if all of the courses can be finished. Otherwise, return FALSE.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq num_courses 1500\leq 1500
  • 00 \leq prerequisites.length 1000\leq 1000
  • prerequisites[i].length =2= 2
  • 00 \leq a[i], b[i] << num_courses
  • All the pairs prerequisites[i] are unique.