Olivera Popović

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Joined: Apr 05, 2019

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Merge Sort in Python

Merge Sort is one of the most famous sorting algorithms. If you're studying Computer Science, Merge Sort, alongside Quick Sort is likely the first efficient, general-purpose sorting algorithm you have heard of. It is also a classic example of a divide-and-conquer category of algorithms. The Idea Behind the Merge Sort...

Olivera Popović

Dec 12, 2019·16 min read

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Insertion Sort in Python

If you're majoring in Computer Science, Insertion Sort is most likely one of the first sorting algorithms you have heard of. It is intuitive and easy to implement, but it's very slow on large arrays and is rarely used to sort them. Insertion Sort is very simple and intuitive to...

Olivera Popović

Nov 26, 2019·14 min read

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Quicksort in Python

Quicksort is a popular sorting algorithm and is often used, right alongside Merge Sort. It's a good example of an efficient sorting algorithm, with an average complexity of \(O(nlogn)\). Part of its popularity also derives from the ease of implementation. We will use simple integers in the first part...

Olivera Popović

Nov 18, 2019·18 min read

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How to Install and Set Up MySQL Server on Windows

MySQL is the most widely used Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) in the world, supplying around a third of current applications with data. MySQL uses a standardized SQL data language and works on many operating systems with drivers that allow developers to connect with all of the popular programming languages....

Olivera Popović

Oct 16, 2019·15 min read

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Graphs in Java: Dijkstra's Algorithm

Graphs are a convenient way to store certain types of data. The concept was ported from mathematics and appropriated for the needs of computer science. Due to the fact that many things can be represented as graphs, graph traversal has become a common task, especially used in data science and...

Olivera Popović

Sep 27, 2019·35 min read

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Graphs in Java: Breadth-First Search (BFS)

Olivera Popović

Sep 26, 2019·8 min read

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Graphs in Java: Depth-First Search (DFS)

Olivera Popović

Sep 25, 2019·14 min read

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Graphs in Java: Representing Graphs in Code

Olivera Popović

Sep 23, 2019·14 min read

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Java Flow Control: break and continue Statements

Conditional statements and loops are a very important tool in programming. There aren't many things we could do with code that can only execute line-by-line. That's what "flow control" means - guiding the execution of our program, instead of letting it execute line-by-line regardless of any internal or...

Olivera Popović

Sep 10, 2019·7 min read