kanishka
Anybody attempted Coursera's "Advanced Algorithms and Complexity" with Elixir?
Has anybody attempted to do exercises for https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-algorithms-and-complexity using Elixir? I might try in a week and I was hoping to hit the ground running.
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elt547
Posted something else but can’t seem to delete. Got excited thinking there was coursera course on algos that used elixir. Didn’t realize you were asking if anyone has chosen to do the course in elixir haha.
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al2o3cr
I can’t speak to that particular course, but in general you might encounter some headaches doing “traditional” data-structures work in Elixir because the textbook algorithms frequently rely on mutable state.
For instance, structures like a queue that would be represented with a doubly-linked list need to be more clever with immutable data - take a look at the
:queuemodule in the Erlang standard library.Some things might also be easier: for one, network flows sound like the
:digraphmodule might help.stevensonmt
You can use a gen server to mimic mutable state. I have had to resort to that for certain Leetcode problems where the tests are not written with immutable state in mind. Before I get caught out, let me just say that I know that is not really the use case for gen servers exactly. But in certain situations it’s the best workaround that I have found.
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kanishka
I will just use python for this and use elixir for other projects.