Description: Thoughts on working in technology with nonprofits, Drupal, writing code, professional development, and other stray ideas.
Thoughts on working in technology with nonprofits, Drupal, writing code, professional development, and other stray ideas.
Sorting is a basic part of any computer science program. My sister and I are currently engaged in helping my parents move. As part of that effort I am spending sorting things, which has reminded me of another place where it can be useful to apply things you learn in one field to another.
Bucket and Radix sorts are basic sorting approaches taught in any good algorithms class. The process involves sorting like items into buckets, and then resorting items, either within those buckets ( bucket sort ), or by their next property ( radix sort ).