This chapter will introduce heaps. A heap is an important data structure that returns the highest or lowest element in O(1) time. This chapter will focus on explaining how heaps are implemented as well as how to work with them. One example is heap sort, which is a sorting algorithm based on heaps.
Understanding Heaps
A heap is a type of tree-like data structure in which the parent is bigger than its children (if max-heap) or smaller than its children (if min-heap). This property of the heap makes it useful for sorting data.
Heaps, unlike other tree data structures, use an array to store data ...
