February 2014
Beginner
1248 pages
62h 25m
English
Looking up a phone number, finding a website via a search engine and checking the definition of a word in a dictionary all involve searching large amounts of data. This section and Section 19.4 discuss two common search algorithms—one that’s easy to program yet relatively inefficient (linear search) and one that’s relatively efficient but more complex to program (binary search).
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