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- [Instructor] The main purpose for this course

is to get familiar with some of the fundamentals

of algorithms, what they're about,

what they're generally used for,

and to get a good, comfortable sense

of how to approach them when learning it and executing them.

This is something that eventually the more advanced

of a developer you become, the more likely

you're going to have to eventually start using them.

You may not use algorithms early on in your career,

but as you begin working on much more intricate applications

that need to be performant,

you will eventually have to start using them.

So leads me to my second point.

The better you become at using algorithms

and understanding the different types of them,

the better you'll be able to have the skills

to write performant applications.

That's one of the core benefits

of using algorithms correctly.

And one of the other reasons for this course

is the fact that having a good, comfortable sense

of working with algorithms is going to better prepare

you for advanced interviews

because whenever you're going to be interviewing

for companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft,

or even if it's not a big company like that,

but one that works very advanced applications,

they are going to ask you questions related to algorithms.

And this is a good start

if you haven't really worked with any before.