Unit 6: Array

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Arrays

data structure that makes it easier to handle similar types of data.

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What arrays can store?

Primitive or object data types

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Element

A seperate piece of data

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index

is used to identify the specific location of this element.

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Square brackets

are used to show that an array is present.

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What do curly brackets indicate?

They indicate an initializer list

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ArrayindexOutOfBoundsException

occurs when the indexes go out of bonds from what the array is actually set to.

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enhanced for loop

it provides a variable that will hold each element of an array.

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No variable

it is used to refer to the current index.

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Sequential searches and Binary searches

It is called the 2 search algorithms

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Sequential searches

These search through the data one by one in order, and take a long time to execute.

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Binary searches

These search through the data for the desirable value by dividing it into half each time until the desired value is found.

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Sorting Algorithms

They take data in an array, and rearrange it into a particular order.

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Selection sort

This sort searches and swaps.

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Insertion sort

It compares the first 2 elements, and depending on the outcome of this it inserts the second value in front of the first value into index 0, which moves the first value to index 1.

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Merge Sort

This type of sort uses recursion.

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Recursion

Technique that uses a method to call itself.

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