A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

We’re suckers for the kind of “life hacks” that tell you that you’ve been doing some relatively mundane task all wrong, and that there’s a super-easy alternative which can massively speed up your ...

Get started with one-dimensional arrays and array variables, then try out five algorithms for searching and sorting arrays in your Java programs An array is a fundamental data structure category, and ...

If you’re under the impression that something as simple as sorting numbers is dull, think again. This visualization lets you see and hear fifteen different algorithms sift their way through a jumbled ...

If you wanted to show the effects of parallelization on the speed of a sort, and could only pick one algorithm to demonstrate this, which would it be? I have found quite a few that lend themselves to ...

Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming fundamentals at once, including loops and conditionals, arrays and lists, comparisons ...