The document discusses graphs and graph algorithms. It defines graph terminology like vertices, edges, adjacency matrix, and adjacency list representations of graphs. It then explains the breadth-first search (BFS) algorithm through an example, showing how BFS visits vertices level-by-level starting from the source vertex. BFS uses a queue and predecessor array to keep track of the shortest paths found. The document also briefly introduces depth-first search (DFS) and shows the beginning of an example DFS.