anyone tell me the easiest way to understand the quick sort

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e.mccormick · Answer

Here are some notes from a lecture on it: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/courses/alglectures/skiena.lectures/lecture5.pdf Wikipedia has an animated example, and some other good notes on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort Go through those, then ask about any parts you still find confusing.

anonymous · Answer

This video is interesting too to get an bird's eye view of the algorithm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8g-iYGHpEA

e.mccormick · Answer

That one was neat. Found this one in the related videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg Good number of sorts there.

e.mccormick · Answer

It also has a link to a program you can use to see the different sorts with same number of elements, change options, etc.