Java Challenges: 100+ Proven Tasks that Will Prepare You for Anything

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M. IndenJava Challengeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7395-1_10

10. Searching and Sorting

Michael Inden¹  

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Zurich, Switzerland

 

Searching and sorting are two elementary topics of computer science in the field of algorithms and data structures. The Collections framework provides efficient implementations for both of them and thus takes a lot of work off your shoulders. However, understanding the underlying algorithms helps in choosing the most suitable variant for a particular use case. I only skim over the topic of searching here so please see my book Der Weg zum Java-Profi [Ind20a] for a more detailed treatment.

In this chapter, you primarily dedicate ...