CPE 110L DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHM ANALYSIS ENGR. ANGELUS VINCENT P.

GUILALAS

St. Paul University Surigao

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Surigao City, Philippines

Data Structures and

Algorithm Analysis
Laboratory Exercises

PREPARED BY:
ENGR. ANGELUS VINCENT P. GUILALAS

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Student Report
CpE 102 DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHM ANALYSIS (Lab)
2ND Semester, SY 2012-2013

Name: Christian Jay Sinugbuhan Course and Year: _________________

Laboratory Exams

Major Exams Perfect Score Score Remarks

Midterm Exam

Final Exam

Laboratory Exercises

Instructor’s
Exercise # Title Date Performed Rating
Signature

ARRAY
1 December 6,2017
Insertion at the Beginning of an Array

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Exercise No. 1
Insertion at the Beginning of an Array
OBJECTIVES

1. Provide practical implementation of insertion of array.

2. Implement insertion of array at the beginning using C++
3. Illustrate the insertion operation in array.

EQUIPMENT

Quantity
1 PC with Microsoft Visual Studio C++ per student

DISCUSSION

Array

Array is a container which can hold a fix number of items and these items should be of the same type. Most of the data
structures make use of arrays to implement their algorithms. Following are the important terms to understand the concept of Array.

Element − each item stored in an array is called an element.

Index − each location of an element in an array has a numerical index, which is used to identify the element.

Array Representation
Arrays can be declared in various ways in different languages. For illustration, let's take C array declaration.

Arrays can be declared in various ways in different languages. For illustration, let's take C array declaration.

As per the above illustration, following are the important points to be considered.

Index starts with 0.

Array length is 8 which means it can store 8 elements.
Each element can be accessed via its index. For example, we can fetch an element at index 6 as 9.

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Basic Operations

Following are the basic operations supported by an array.

Traverse − Prints all the array elements one by one.

Insertion − Adds an element at the given index.
Deletion − Deletes an element at the given index.
Search − Searches an element using the given index or by the value.
Update − Updates an element at the given index.

Insertion Operation
Insert operation is to insert one or more data elements into an array. Based on the requirement, a new element can
be added at the beginning, end, or any given index of array.

Insertion at the Beginning of an Array

When the insertion happens at the beginning, it causes all the existing data items to shift one step downward. Here,
we design and implement an algorithm to insert an element at the beginning of an array.

Algorithm
We assume A is an array with N elements. The maximum numbers of elements it can store is defined by MAX. We
shall first check if an array has any empty space to store any element and then we proceed with the insertion process.

Implementation in C++

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GENERALIZATION

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