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Data Structures & Algorithms easy

Bubble Sort

Implement bubble sort that sorts a list of numbers in ascending order.

sorting arrays algorithms

Data Structures & Algorithms easy

Selection Sort Implementation

Implement selection sort to sort a list of numbers in ascending order.

sorting selection-sort algorithm

Data Structures & Algorithms medium

Merge Sort

Implement merge_sort(numbers) that returns a sorted copy of the input list using the merge sort algorithm.

sorting recursion divide-and-conquer

Data Structures & Algorithms medium

Heap Sort Implementation

Implement the heap sort algorithm to sort a list of comparable elements in non-decreasing order.

heap sorting in-place

Data Structures & Algorithms medium

Bucket Sort

Implement bucket sort to sort a list of floating-point numbers in the range [0,1).

sorting bucket-sort insertion-sort

Data Structures & Algorithms easy

Shell Sort

Implement Shell sort, an in-place comparison sort that generalizes insertion sort, using a gap sequence that shrinks by half each pass.

sorting shell-sort in-place

Data Structures & Algorithms easy

Exponential Search

Implement exponential search to find any valid index of a target in a sorted list.

searching sorted-array algorithms

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Data Structures & Algorithms — Python coding challenges

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