Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Amling Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Help with java insertion sort program Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 06:09:59 -0500 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 72c1sGRGJYqeELgdomlkFAM1/HaB1vusJk0Hyo6A72VGA6mjEF Cancel-Lock: sha1:35hhOQlBRzKumbZcrU+YvzCMBoQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29616 On 8/9/14 9:11 PM, Scott Dunning wrote: > Hello I trying write a sorting program that will ask a user what type of > sorting method to use (insertion, bubble, selection) and then ask them > to enter integers to sort. One wonders why classes are still teaching these algorithms. I've had colleagues who have written bubble sort into production code, because that's the only algorithm they were ever taught (or maybe it was better than some even worse ones). If you do complete this assignment, throw away the code, look up QuickSort, implement a reasonable variation of it, and don't look back. --Mike Amling SSdsbCBldmVuIHNlbmQgeW91IGFuIG9wZW4tc291cmNlIGltcGxtZW50YXRpb24u