Reaper daw. In this section we are going to review searching and sorting algorithms.
Why is sorting so important
- The first step in organizing data is sorting. Lots of tasks become easier once a data set of items is sorted
- Some algorithms like binary search are built around a sorted data structure.
- In accordance to S. Skiena computers have historically spent more time sorting than doing anything else. Sorting remains the most ubiquitous combinatorial algorithm problem in practice.
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- Big O cheat sheets; intro; big O notation; data structures; algorithms; Github; About: I made this website as a fun project to help me understand better: algorithms, data structures and big O notation. And also to have some practice in: Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML.
- Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet. I would like to see the same type of complexity cheat sheet for algorithms for common math problems: addition.
- Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet. This webpage covers the space and time Big-O complexities of common algorithms used in Computer Science.
Considerations:
Big-O Cheat Sheet for Some Data Structures and Algorithms. This cheat sheet is one you will want to bookmark as it is part of an ebook!
- How to sort: descending order or ascending order?
- Sorting based on what? An object name (alphabetically), by some number defined by its fields/instance variables. Or maybe compare dates, birthdays, etc.
- What happens with equals keys, for example various people with the same name: John, then sort them by Last Name.
- Does your sorting algorithm sorts in place or needs extra memory to hold another copy of the array to be sorted. This is even more important in embedded systems.
Java uses Comparable interface for sorting and returns: +1 if compared object is greater, -1 if compared object is less and 0 if compared objects are equal.
Sorting becomes more ubiquitous when we think on all the things we do daily that are previously sorted for us to understand and have better access to them:
- Imagine trying to find a phone number in an unsorted phone book, or searching for a word in an unsorted dictionary.
- Your MP3 player can sort your lists by artists name, genre, song name, ratings.
- Search engines display results in descending order of importance
- Spreadsheets can be sorted in various ways to work better with their contents
Searching
There are two types of searching algorithms: Those that need a previously ordered data structure in order to work properly, and those that don’t need an ordered list.
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Searching is also very important for many computing applications: searching through a search engine, finding a bank account balance for some client, searching in a large data set for a particular value, searching in your directories for some needed file. Many applications rely on effective search, if your application is complete but takes long too perform a search and retrieve data it will be discarded as useless.
Big-O notation is mantra of engineer. Space and Time complexities are key indispensable piece of knowledge to measure your algorithm and understanding data structures. As a software engineer, your aptitude and problem solving skills are measured in Big-O notation.Mastering complexities is first step in becoming a successful software engineer. There are class of algorithms and their related complexities. It is difficult to remember all of them all the time.
Eric, who created Big-O cheat sheet apparently understood this fact and put them together a quick Big-O notation reference guide for the community. It’s a great place to start learning fundamentals of designing efficient algorithms and solutions.
Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet (Know Thy Complexities!) @ericdrowell
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Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet (Know Thy Complexities!) @ericdrowell
Hi there! This webpage covers the space and time Big-O complexities of common algorithms used in Computer Science. When preparing for technical interviews in the past, I found myself spending hours crawling the internet putting together the best, average, and worst case complexities for search and sorting algorithms so that I wouldn’t be stumped when asked about them. Over the last few years, I’ve interviewed at several Silicon Valley startups, and also some bigger companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and eBay, and each time that I prepared for an interview, I thought to myself “Why hasn’t someone created a nice Big-O cheat sheet?”. So, to save all of you fine folks a ton of time, I went ahead and created one. Enjoy! – Eric