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Max Heap: Introduction

Explore how to build a max heap following the max heap property and implement insertion and deletion operations in Python. Learn the percolate up process for insertion and the max heapify process for removal. This lesson helps you grasp the core algorithms to maintain heap structure efficiently.

Building a Max-Heap

As mentioned in the previous lesson, max heaps follow the max heap property which means that the key at the parent node is always greater than the keys at the child nodes. Heaps can be implemented using lists or using node and tree classes. Although they are generally implemented using lists or arrays as that is the more ...