Min Heap: Introduction
Explore the concept of min heaps and learn how to build and maintain them in C#. This lesson covers insertion and removal methods, emphasizing the heap property using bottom-up heapify. Gain a solid understanding of min heap operations essential for efficient data handling and coding interviews.
We'll cover the following...
Building a min heap
Building a mMin hHeap # As mentioned in a previous lesson, min heaps follow the min heap property, which means that the key at the parent node is always smaller than the keys at the child nodes. Heaps can be implemented using vectors. Initially, elements are placed in nodes in the same order as they appear in the vector. Then, a function is called over the whole heap in a bottom-up manner that “Min Heapifies” or “percolates up” on this heap so that the heap property is restored. The “Min Heapify” function is bottom-up because it starts comparing and swapping parent-child ...