CIS3355: Business Data Structures
Fall, 2008
 

Searching and Sorting

Searching and Sorting are TECHNIQUES, NOT data structures.

Why include these here? As noted earlier, we will soon be introducing Linked Lists and Trees (New data Structures). In order to fully appreciate these data structures, we must realize that these data structures are useful in offering a trade-off between Searching (finding data) and Sorting (a technique which is tedious, but which results in data which can be found extremely quickly).