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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in Go

Solution: Parallel Courses

Understand how to determine the minimum number of semesters required to complete a set of courses with prerequisites. Learn to model the problem as a directed graph, use DFS traversal with memoization for efficiency, and detect cycles that make scheduling impossible. This lesson helps you apply graph algorithms to solve dependency scheduling problems effectively.

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You are designing a course schedule for a university with n courses, labeled from 1 to n. The prerequisite requirements are given in an array, relations, where each relations[i]=[prevCoursei,nextCoursei]\text{relations}[i] = [\text{prevCourse}_i, \text{nextCourse}_i] means that prevCoursei\text{prevCourse}_i must be completed before you can enroll in nextCoursei\text{nextCourse}_i ...