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Will fill out below questions and clean up code later.

Heaps Practice

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Comprehension Questions

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How is a Heap different from a Binary Search Tree?
Could you build a heap with linked nodes?
Why is adding a node to a heap an O(log n) operation?
Were the heap_up & heap_down methods useful? Why?

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Well done Erika, you hit the learning goals here. Well done.

Comment thread heaps/heap_sort.py
Comment on lines 3 to 7
def heap_sort(list):
""" This method uses a heap to sort an array.
Time Complexity: ?
Space Complexity: ?
Time Complexity: O(n log n)
Space Complexity: O(1)
"""
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👍 The space complexity you have here is O(n) because you 're building a heap of n nodes.

Comment thread heaps/min_heap.py
Comment on lines 21 to 26
def add(self, key, value = None):
""" This method adds a HeapNode instance to the heap
If value == None the new node's value should be set to key
Time Complexity: ?
Space Complexity: ?
Time Complexity: O(log n)
Space Complexity: O(log n)
"""
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👍

Comment thread heaps/min_heap.py
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def remove(self):
""" This method removes and returns an element from the heap
maintaining the heap structure
Time Complexity: ?
Space Complexity: ?
Time Complexity: O(log n)
Space Complexity: O(log n)
"""
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👍

Comment thread heaps/min_heap.py
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def empty(self):
""" This method returns true if the heap is empty
Time complexity: ?
Space complexity: ?
Time complexity: O(1)
Space complexity: O(1)
"""
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👍

Comment thread heaps/min_heap.py
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def heap_up(self, index):
""" This helper method takes an index and
moves it up the heap, if it is less than it's parent node.
It could be **very** helpful for the add method.
Time complexity: ?
Space complexity: ?
Time complexity: O(log n)
Space complexity: O(1)
"""
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👍 However the space complexity is O(log n) because of the recursive call stack.

Comment thread heaps/min_heap.py
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def heap_down(self, index):
""" This helper method takes an index and
moves it up the heap if it's smaller
than it's parent node.
"""
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👍 Nice work

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