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Sorting songs with the ability to save and resume partial sorts
I listen to a lot of music (~4k h/y) and managing thousands of songs is a bit of a challenging.
To improve my listening experience I want to better organize my collection.
One thing I want to do is ...
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A selection sort implemented in Python
I'm not proficient at Python. My question is twofold: whether this selection sort algorithm implementation for number lists could be considered clean code (in the sense of being modular and ...
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Insertion Sort- inserting from the left
I've implemented my own insertion sort algorithm, and here's the code.
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Breadth First Search Block Puzzle
I am creating a program that will be given a text file as output with the board's dimension and the piece id along with the piece width and length. The goal is to arrange all blocks in the board ...
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Quicksort Algorithm Speed
I have made a sorting algorithm in Python 3. This sorting algorithm is a modified optimized median of 3 quicksort, with network sorting for lists of size up to 16 and for finding the median. I have ...
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Mergesort in python
My mergesort implementation currently takes a very long time, for a list with 1 million elements it takes over 130 seconds to get the list sorted.
Could someone kindly have a look at my code and ...
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Sorts and data structures: a bucket sort
I am currently going through and implementing basic algorithms and data structures as I feel I didn't learn enough about this during my Data Structures and Algorithms unit. So far I've done the ...
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SelectionSort Algorithm using Python
I am a rookie and I need help optimizing this SelectionSort() algorithm which I have tried using Python.
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Python's quicksort algorithm
I was playing around with sorting methods, brushing up on my algorithms. I have made the following implementation of quicksort:
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Python implementation of Kahn's Algorithm
Please provide any suggestions on the below code for Kahn's algorithm. Can it be implemented in a better manner, or be improved:
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Tarjan's Algorithm Python Implementation
I'm planning to use Tarjan's algorithm for a program in which I would be processing a file, converting the processed data to a dictionary, doing a topological sort on that dictionary (using this ...
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Heap Sort in Python
NOTE: I am beginner in Python
I learnt the Heap sort today and tried my own implementation using Python. Can i get feedback for my code and areas of improvement. I have tried to add comments inline, ...
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Novel sorting algorithm
I have devised a novel sorting algorithm, named Oracle Sort, which I believe is far superior to all currently known sorting algorithms (under certain assumptions). It utilizes an oracle to achieve a ...
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