All language subtitles for 04 - Reasons for this course.en

- [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.