How important is it for a programmer to know how to implement a QuickSort/MergeSort algorithm from memory?
- by John Smith
I was reviewing my notes and stumbled across the implementation of different sorting algorithms.
As I attempted to make sense of the implementation of QuickSort and MergeSort, it occurred to me that although I do programming for a living and consider myself decent at what I do, I have neither the photographic memory nor the sheer brainpower to…