Solution: Parallel Courses
Explore how to solve the problem of scheduling university courses with prerequisites by applying topological sort and depth-first search. Learn to detect circular dependencies, use memoization for efficiency, and compute the minimum number of semesters needed to complete all courses.
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Statement
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
You can take any number of courses during a single semester, as long as the prerequisite for each course has been met in a previous semester.
Your task is to determine the minimum number of semesters required to complete all n courses. If the prerequisites contain a circular dependency (e.g., course A requires B, and course B requires A), it’s impossible to complete them all, so you should return -1.
Constraints:
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