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LeetCode 207, Medium. Topics: Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Graph, Topological Sort. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 12 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

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 true if you can finish all courses. Otherwise, return false.

Examples

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

Constraints

  • 1 <= numCourses <= 2000
  • 0 <= prerequisites.length <= 5000
  • prerequisites[i].length == 2
  • 0 <= ai, bi < numCourses
  • All the pairs prerequisites[i] are unique.

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

Complexity

Tags

Grind 75, Grind, Blind 75, NeetCode 150, NeetCode 250, NeetCode All.
Last modified on August 25, 2026