Solution: Course Schedule II
Understand how to solve the Course Schedule II problem by applying topological sorting to manage course prerequisites. Learn to construct dependency graphs, identify sources, and apply breadth-first search to find valid course orders or detect impossible schedules due to cycles.
Statement
You are given n courses, labeled from 0 to n - 1. Some courses have prerequisites, which are provided as a list of pairs: prerequisites[i]
Your task is to determine a valid order in which you can complete all the courses and return it as an array of course labels.
If there are multiple valid orderings, you can return any of them.
If it’s impossible to finish all courses (due to a cycle in prerequisites), return an empty array.
Note: There can be a course in the
to range with no prerequisites.
Constraints:
Let be the number of courses.
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prerequisites.length prerequisites[i].length