Solution: Course Schedule II
Explore how to solve the Course Schedule II problem by applying topological sort in a directed graph of courses and prerequisites. Learn to build the graph, identify sources, and traverse using BFS to find a valid course order or detect cycles that make completion impossible. Understand time and space complexity to optimize your solution.
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.