Hello, aspiring TypeScript developers!
In today's lesson, we're diving into merge sort, a powerful algorithm for organizing data efficiently. Picture shuffling a deck of cards and then rearranging them in order. Merge sort achieves this with data on a grand scale, making it an excellent choice for sorting large datasets. We're going to explore and implement this technique using TypeScript.
First, let's construct a merge()
function in TypeScript. This function merges two sorted arrays into a single sorted array. Think of it as combining two sorted stacks of cards into one sorted stack.
The merge()
function above takes two sorted arrays (left
and right
) and combines them into one sorted array (resultArray
).
Seemingly tricky, the code is very straightforward:
- We place two pointers,
leftIndex
and , at the beginning of the and arrays.
