It is an algorithm that searches for an element one by one in an array, until the target element is found. Consider if X is an element to be searched in an array, then linear search performs the following: Compare X with each element of array one by one If X matches with an element,…
It is an algorithm that searches for an element in a sorted array, and it follows a Divide and Conquer algorithmic model. Dictionary is the best example for Binary Search, since the words are in alphabetical order we don’t need to search each page by page for a word. Just, we will compare the word…
What is Linked List ? A linked list is a linear data structure containing interconnected nodes through pointers. Since there is no concept of pointers in Java, each node holds the reference of another node, but the last element of the linked list refers to NULL, meaning the end of the list. A linked list…