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What is insertion sort like?
Short answer. Arranging playing cards in your hand, one card at a time.
When is insertion sort fastest?
When the array is already nearly sorted.
Remember
| Shift bigger values right |
| Insert key into the gap |
How do you arrange cards in your hand? Take the next card as the key. Shift bigger cards right. Drop the key into the gap. Remember. Shift bigger values right. Insert the key into the gap.
This clip is from the full lesson: Sorting Arrays: Bubble, Selection and Insertion Sort — 7 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: CBSE Class 11 Information Technology (802), ICSE Class 10 Computer Applications, ISC Class 11 Computer Science (868), ISC Class 12 Computer Science (868)
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