Wednesday 18 January 2017

Algorithms - lesson 3 - Serial and binary sorting

Your tasks!

1.  Do the cups sorting activity.  This is called serial searching.

2.  On a new Google drawing, draw out a flowchart that shows how to serial search.  Share this - Advanced - change from Private to Anyone with the link.  Copy/paste the link to a new blog post titled the same as this post.

3.  Watch slide 6 on the presentation at the top of the webpage for this lesson.

4.  On your blog post, explain, in detail, how binary search is different to serial search and the requirements for binary search to work.

5. Explain how binary search is quicker and more efficient than serial searching.  Give an example (you can use the one from the presentation)

Publish!