11.1.2 - Using Heaps for Sorting
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What is a heap?
💡 Hint: Think about the relationships between parents and children in the structure.
What is the time complexity for building a heap?
💡 Hint: Remember the steps involved in creating the heap from an array.
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What is the primary use of heaps?
💡 Hint: Consider how you would prioritize tasks in real-life applications.
True or False: Heap sort has a time complexity of O(n^2).
💡 Hint: Recall how sorting with heaps operates compared to other methods.
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Given the array [10, 15, 30, 5, 20, 25], build a max heap and explain each step in the process.
💡 Hint: Focus on where swaps may occur.
Devise a scenario where heaps can significantly improve performance compared to sorting methods like bubble sort.
💡 Hint: Think about how often data changes and how fast you need that information.
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