Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming fundamentals at once, including loops and conditionals, arrays and lists, comparisons ...

Children often surprise us with their natural problem-solving skills. A new study shows that they can discover efficient algorithms on their own. Researchers Huiwen Alex Yang, Bill D. Thompson, and ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Sorting algorithms are an essential chapter in undergraduate computer science education. Due to their easy to explain nature and fairly straight-forward analysis, this set of algorithms offers a ...

1 Energy, Materials and Methods Research Laboratory, National High Polytechnic School of Douala, Douala, Cameroon. 2 National Advanced School of Engineering, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

Abstract: The exploration of utilizing reconfigurable circuits with parallel computing capabilities has been conducted to enhance sorting performance and reduce power consumption. However, most ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present a specific task from the topic of sorting algorithms, where an array of non-repeating numeric data is sorted by direct positioning. Such a task arises frequently in ...