CHAPTER 1
Sorting, Searching, and Merging
In this chapter, we will explain the following:
- How to sort a list of items using selection and insertion sort
- How to add a new item to a sorted list so that the list remains sorted
- How to sort an array of strings
- How to sort related (parallel) arrays
- How to search a sorted list using binary search
- How to search an array of strings
- How to write a program to do a frequency count of words in a passage
- How to merge two sorted lists to create one sorted list
1.1 Sorting an Array: Selection Sort
Sorting is the process by which a set of values are arranged in ascending or descending order. There are many ...
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