Course Schedule II


Problem Statement :


There are a total of numCourses courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to numCourses - 1. You are given an array prerequisites where prerequisites[i] = [ai, bi] indicates that you must take course bi first if you want to take course ai.

For example, the pair [0, 1], indicates that to take course 0 you have to first take course 1.
Return the ordering of courses you should take to finish all courses. If there are many valid answers, return any of them. If it is impossible to finish all courses, return an empty array.

 

Example 1:

Input: numCourses = 2, prerequisites = [[1,0]]
Output: [0,1]
Explanation: There are a total of 2 courses to take. To take course 1 you should have finished course 0. So the correct course order is [0,1].
Example 2:

Input: numCourses = 4, prerequisites = [[1,0],[2,0],[3,1],[3,2]]
Output: [0,2,1,3]
Explanation: There are a total of 4 courses to take. To take course 3 you should have finished both courses 1 and 2. Both courses 1 and 2 should be taken after you finished course 0.
So one correct course order is [0,1,2,3]. Another correct ordering is [0,2,1,3].
Example 3:

Input: numCourses = 1, prerequisites = []
Output: [0]
 

Constraints:

1 <= numCourses <= 2000
0 <= prerequisites.length <= numCourses * (numCourses - 1)
prerequisites[i].length == 2
0 <= ai, bi < numCourses
ai != bi
All the pairs [ai, bi] are distinct.



Solution :



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                            Solution in C :

int cmpfunc(const void* a, const void* b){
    int* arr1 = *(int**)a;
    int* arr2 = *(int**)b;
    
    return arr1[1] - arr2[1];
}

int BTS(int** arr, int arrSize, int val){
    int left = 0, right = arrSize-1;
    int mid;
    while(left < right){
        mid = left + (right - left)/2 ;
        if(arr[mid][1] >= val)
            right = mid;
        else
            left = mid + 1;
    }
    if(arr[left][1] == val)
        return left;
    else
        return -1;
}

int* findOrder(int numCourses, int** prerequisites, int prerequisitesSize, int* prerequisitesColSize, int* returnSize){
    int* prereqCn = calloc(numCourses , sizeof(int));
    for(int i = 0; i < prerequisitesSize; i++){
        prereqCn[ prerequisites[i][0] ]++;
    }
    //depend test case : queue can be smaller 
    int* queue = malloc(1000 * sizeof(int));
    int Qidx  = 0;
    for(int i = 0; i < numCourses; i++){
        if(prereqCn[i] == 0){
            queue[Qidx] = i;
            Qidx++;
        }
    }
    if(prerequisitesSize > 0)
        qsort(prerequisites, prerequisitesSize, sizeof(int*), cmpfunc);
    int* ans = malloc( numCourses * sizeof(int)) ;
    int andIdx = 0;
    while(Qidx){
        Qidx--;
        int val = queue[Qidx];
        ans[andIdx] = val;
        andIdx++;
        if(prerequisitesSize > 0){
            int k = BTS(prerequisites, prerequisitesSize, val);
            if(k != -1){
                while(k < prerequisitesSize && prerequisites[k][1] == val){
                    prereqCn[ prerequisites[k][0] ]--;
                    if( prereqCn[ prerequisites[k][0] ] == 0  ){
                        queue[Qidx] = prerequisites[k][0] ;
                        Qidx++;  
                    }
                    k++;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    //if collision happen, then no ans
    if(andIdx != numCourses){
        *returnSize = 0;
        free(ans);
        return NULL;
    }
    else
        *returnSize = numCourses;
    return ans;
}
                        


                        Solution in C++ :

typedef vector<vector<int>> vvi;
typedef vector<int> vi;
class Solution {
private:
    void dfs(int s, vvi& graph, vi& pro, vi& res, bool& cycle) {
        if (pro[s] > 0) {
            if (pro[s] == 1) cycle = true;
            return;
        }
        pro[s] = 1;
        for (int u: graph[s]) dfs(u, graph, pro, res, cycle);
        pro[s] = 2;
        res.push_back(s);
    }

public:
    vector<int> findOrder(int numCourses, vector<vector<int>>& prerequisites) {
        vvi graph(numCourses);
        vi pro(numCourses);
        vi res, buf;
        bool cycle = false;

        for (int i = 0; i < prerequisites.size(); i++) {
            int a = prerequisites[i][0], b = prerequisites[i][1];
            graph[b].push_back(a);
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < numCourses; i++) {
            dfs(i, graph, pro, res, cycle);
            if (cycle == true) return buf;
        }

        reverse(res.begin(), res.end());
        return res;
    }
};
                    


                        Solution in Java :

class Solution {
    public int[] findOrder(int numCourses, int[][] prerequisites) {
       int[] indegree = new int[numCourses];
       boolean[] visited = new boolean[prerequisites.length];
       boolean[] done = new boolean[numCourses];
       int[] res = new int[numCourses];

       for (int[] p : prerequisites) {
           indegree[p[1]]++;
       }
       int index = 0;
        boolean hasNewVertex = true;
        while(hasNewVertex) {
            hasNewVertex = false;
            for (int i = 0; i < prerequisites.length; i++) {
                if (!visited[i]) {
                    int cur = prerequisites[i][0];
                    int pre = prerequisites[i][1];
                    if (indegree[cur] == 0) { 
                        // start from indegree == 0, cut edges, until no indegree = 0
                        visited[i] = true;
                        indegree[pre]--;
                        hasNewVertex = true;
                        if(!done[cur]){
                            done[cur] = true;
                            res[index++] = cur;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        for (int i = 0 ; i < numCourses; i++) {
            if (!done[i]) {
                res[index++] = i;
            }
        }
        
        for (int i = 0; i < numCourses/2; i++) {
            int temp = res[i];
            res[i] = res[numCourses-1-i];
            res[numCourses-1-i] = temp;
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < numCourses; i++) {
            if (indegree[i] != 0) {
                return new int[]{};
            }
        }

        return res;
    }
}
                    


                        Solution in Python : 
                            
class Solution:
    def findOrder(self, numCourses: int, prerequisites: List[List[int]]) -> List[int]:
        graph = {}
        
        for i in range(numCourses):
            graph[i]=[]
        
        for c,pc in prerequisites:
            graph[c].append(pc)
            
        ans = []
        finallyVisited=set()
        visited = set()
        def dfs(course):
            if course in visited:
                return False
            
            if course in finallyVisited:
                return True
            
            visited.add(course)

            for nei in graph[course]:
                if not dfs(nei):
                    return False
            
            ans.append(course)
            finallyVisited.add(course)
            visited.remove(course)
            return True


        for key,val in graph.items():
            if not dfs(key):
                return []

        return ans
                    


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