(January 10, 2020 at 10:03 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Man, you're a data beast!
Sorting algorithms are really important tools for learning computer science concepts, but unfortunately you won't be implementing them in the practical world aside from in very specialized instances.
Luckily, the knowledge you've gained and your dedication to a thorough understanding of these concepts is going to make you a great hire when you enter the job market.
Thank you for being encouraging. But, before entering the job market, I should probably finish the university. It's going relatively well for me, but not exceedingly well. I've right now failed a digital electronics test (though there will be another time for it in a few weeks, and almost certainly a few more this year) and I will, in all likelihood, fail the mathematics test that will be this Friday.
Furthermore, in order for an employer to value my text, it needs to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. My professor told me, when I showed him the newest version of my text, that Osječki Matematički List usually doesn't accept texts that are over 12 pages long. He told me it's a relatively good material to re-edit into three articles.
Of course, he had some objections to my text. The biggest objection he had was that I implemented QuickSort in a different way than he showed us on the lectures. I was using a helper-array instead of the hard-to-understand partial sorting, and professor thinks it makes my program around 3 times slower. He also objected that I was often using terms from linguistics to describe the programming language I designed, instead of using the words and phrases typical of computer science. Some of those words and phrases typical of computer science, I actually have never heard of them. For instance, the professor tells me the correct term for "grammatical illusion" is "semantic analysis".
