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Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition
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Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

by P. J. Deitel, H. M. Deitel, D. T. Quirk
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1552 pages
46h 20m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

Chapter 20. Searching and Sorting

 

With sobs and tears he sorted out Those of the largest size ...

 
 --Lewis Carroll
 

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing’s so hard, but search will find it out.

 
 --Robert Herrick
 

’Tis in my memory lock’d, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

 
 --William Shakespeare
 

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises — but only performance is reality.

 
 --Harold S. Green

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you’ll learn:

  • To search for a given value in a vector using binary search.

  • To use Big O notation to express the efficiency of an algorithm and to compare the performance of algorithms.

  • To review the efficiency of the selection sort and insertion sort ...

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