In this section, we will cover some of the most well-known sorting algorithms in computer science. We will start with the slowest one, and then we will cover some better algorithms. We will understand that we first need to learn how to sort and then search for any given information.
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You can see an animated version of how the most famous algorithms covered in this chapter work in the following links at https://visualgo.net/en/sorting and https://www.toptal.com/developers/sorting-algorithms.
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When developers start learning sorting algorithms, they usually learn the bubble sort algorithm first, because it is the simplest of all the sorting algorithms. However, it is one of the worst-case sorting algorithms with respect to runtime, and you will see why.
The bubble sort algorithm compares every two adjacent values and swaps them if the first one is bigger than the second one. It has this name because the values tend to move up into the correct...