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Lecture about sorting and searching algorithms. The video is recorded in 2013 in Bulgarian.

Topics covered:

• Sorting
  • Sorting and classification
• Review of the most popular sorting algorithms
  • Quick sort
  • Merge sort
  • Bubble sort
  • Bucket sort
• Searching
  • Linear search
  • Binary search
  • Interpolation search
• Shuffling

Lecture about recursion and recursive algorithms. The video is recorded in 2013 in Bulgarian.

Topics covered:

• What is Recursion?
• Calculating Factorial Recursively
• Generating All 0/1 Vectors Recursively
• Finding All Paths in a Labyrinth Recursively
• Recursion or Iteration?
  • Harmful Recursion
  • Optimizing Bad Recursion

Data structures efficiency and operations comparison. The video is recorded in 2013 in Bulgarian.

Topics covered:

• Fundamental Data Structures – Comparison
• Data Structures Efficiency
• Choosing Data Structure

Overview of some of the advanced .NET data structures. The video is recorded in 2013 in Bulgarian.

Topics covered:

• Standard .NET Data Structures
  • Special .NET Collections
• Wintellect Power Collections
  • Installation
  • Power Collection Classes
  • Implementing Priority Queue
• C5 Collections
• Other Advanced Data Structures
  • Suffix trees, interval trees, ropes, tries, etc.

Overview of dictionaries, hash tables and sets. The video is recorded in 2013 in Bulgarian.

Topics covered:

• Dictionaries
• Hash Tables
• Hashing
• Collisions
• Dictionary<TKey, TValue> Class
• Sets: HashSet<T> and SortedSet<T>