207. Course Schedule

• Difficulty: Medium

• Topics: Depth-first Search, Breadth-first Search, Graph, Topological Sort

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Problem:

There are a total of n courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to n-1.

Some courses may have prerequisites, for example to take course 0 you have to first take course 1, which is expressed as a pair: [0,1]

Given the total number of courses and a list of prerequisite pairs, is it possible for you to finish all courses?

Example 1:

Input: 2, [[1,0]] 
Output: true
Explanation: There are a total of 2 courses to take. 
             To take course 1 you should have finished course 0. So it is possible.

Example 2:

Input: 2, [[1,0],[0,1]]
Output: false
Explanation: There are a total of 2 courses to take. 
             To take course 1 you should have finished course 0, and to take course 0 you should
             also have finished course 1. So it is impossible.

Note:

1. The input prerequisites is a graph represented by a list of edges, not adjacency matrices. Read more about how a graph is represented.
2. You may assume that there are no duplicate edges in the input prerequisites.

Solutions:

class Solution {
public:
    bool canFinish(int numCourses, vector<vector<int>>& prerequisites) {
        vector<vector<int>> graph(numCourses, vector<int>());
        vector<int> visit(numCourses);
        for (auto a : prerequisites) {
            graph[a[1]].push_back(a[0]);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < numCourses; ++i) {
            if (!canFinishDFS(graph, visit, i)) return false;
        }
        return true;
    }
    bool canFinishDFS(vector<vector<int>>& graph, vector<int>& visit, int i) {
        if (visit[i] == -1) return false;
        if (visit[i] == 1) return true;
        visit[i] = -1;
        for (auto a : graph[i]) {
            if (!canFinishDFS(graph, visit, a)) return false;
        }
        visit[i] = 1;
        return true;
    }
};