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Essential algorithms for GCSE and A Level Computer Science
Searching algorithms
Routines that find data within a data structure.
What is a binary search?
The binary search is an efficient algorithm for finding an item in a sorted list. To perform a binary search, start at the middle item in the list and repeatedly divide the list in half.
Binary search videos
What extra is in the book?
Each algorithm / data structure has its own dedicated chapter in the book, which includes:
- Overview
- Typical applications / uses
- Typical operations
- The algorithm written out in simple-structured English
- The algorithm written out in pseudocode
- Full code listing in Python
- Additional code listings in Visual Basic and C# are also available to download
- Diagrammatic walk-through
- Efficiency discussion with reference to Big-O notation
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