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# Dijkstra's Algorithm Cheatsheet

Dijkstra's algorithm is a shortest-path algorithm for graphs. It finds the shortest path from a source vertex to all other vertices in a weighted graph. Here is an overview of the algorithm and its basic syntax.

## Algorithm

1. Initialize a set of visited vertices `visited` and a set of tentative distances `dist` to all vertices to infinity, except for the source vertex, which has distance 0.
2. While there are unvisited vertices:
    1. Choose the unvisited vertex with the smallest tentative distance, call it `current`.
    2. For each neighbor `v` of `current` that is still unvisited:
        1. Calculate the tentative distance from the source vertex to `v` via `current`: `dist[current] + weight(current, v)`.
        2. If this tentative distance is less than the current distance stored in `dist[v]`, update `dist[v]` to the new, lower value.
    3. Mark `current` as visited.
3. Return `dist`.

## Syntax

### Python

import heapq

def dijkstra(graph, source):

visited = set()

dist = {v: float('inf') for v in graph}

dist[source] = 0

heap = [(0, source)]

while heap:

(d, current) = heapq.heappop(heap)

if current in visited:

continue

visited.add(current)

for v, w in graph[current].items():

if v in visited:

continue

if dist[current] + w < dist[v]:

dist[v] = dist[current] + w

heapq.heappush(heap, (dist[v], v))

return dist


### C++

include <queue>

include <unordered_map>

include <vector>

using namespace std;

typedef unordered_map<int, unordered_map<int, int>> Graph;

vector<int> dijkstra(const Graph& graph, int source) {

vector<int> dist(graph.size(), INT_MAX);

dist[source] = 0;

priority_queue<pair<int, int>, vector<pair<int, int>>, greater<pair<int, int>>> pq;

pq.push({0, source});

while (!pq.empty()) {

int current = pq.top().second;

pq.pop();

for (auto neighbor : graph.at(current)) {

int v = neighbor.first;

int w = neighbor.second;

if (dist[current] + w < dist[v]) {

dist[v] = dist[current] + w;

pq.push({dist[v], v});

}

return dist;

}


## Resources

- [Dijkstra's Algorithm on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm)
- [Dijkstra's Algorithm Visualization](https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Dijkstra.html)