Beginning Java Data Structures and Algorithms

Conventions Used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "This is the task of the merge() function, which is found at the end of the pseudocode shown in the preceding section."

A block of code is set as follows:

quickSort(array, start, end)if(start < end)p = partition(array, start, end)quickSort(array, start, p - 1)quickSort(array, p + 1, end)

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

gradlew test --tests com.packt.datastructuresandalg.lesson2.activity.selectionsort*

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words ...