Agenda
- Warm-up: Tech Headlines
- Race the sorts: the same data, three algorithms, one shared table of times and comparison counts on the board
- Read and change: Sorting and Timing It
- Discussion: When Code Hurts — a sort is a ranking, and a ranking of people decides who gets seen first
- Practise: Sorting Practice
Things to do before our next class
- Finish Sorting Practice.
- Journal: the sort you would choose for a nearly sorted list, and why that answer surprised the room.