November 2002
Beginner
432 pages
11h 44m
English
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Chapter 12. Program Algorithms
In This Chapter
Counters and Accumulators
Swapping Values
Sorting
Nested Loops
Searching Arrays
A Brief Introduction to Data Structures
This chapter is more theory oriented than the previous ones. You'll learn about programming algorithms that are common across all programming languages. An algorithm is a common procedure or methodology for performing a certain task. To keep things familiar, you'll see the algorithms in Visual Basic, but the concepts you learn here are important no matter which programming language you use.
The highlights of this chapter include the following:
Counters and accumulators enable you to keep running counts and totals.
The use of temporary variables is vital for data swapping.
The bubble sort ...