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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Help with java insertion sort program |
| Date | 2014-08-10 07:43 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ls7lu3$6ip$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <ls6k6e$v0r$1@dont-email.me> <c4p280F12qiU1@mid.individual.net> |
On 8/10/2014 7:09 AM, Mike Amling wrote:
> 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.
Better still, look up Arrays.sort() and Collections.sort() and
throw away your Quicksort implementation.
--
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Help with java insertion sort program Scott Dunning <scottwd01@gmail.com> - 2014-08-09 19:11 -0700
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-09 22:28 -0400
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-09 23:34 -0400
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Scott Dunning <scottwd01@gmail.com> - 2014-08-09 21:11 -0700
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-10 00:30 -0400
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-10 00:45 -0400
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-10 05:58 -0400
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-08-10 05:54 -0400
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2014-08-10 06:09 -0500
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-10 07:43 -0400
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2014-08-13 23:51 -0500
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-14 08:07 -0400
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2014-08-14 00:46 -0500
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-08-19 16:50 -0400
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-08-12 03:00 -0700
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Mike Amling <mamling@chaff.us> - 2014-08-13 23:51 -0500
Re: Help with java insertion sort program Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2014-08-14 14:30 +0300
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