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Insertion Sort

This project contains a skeleton for you to implement Insertion Sort. In the file lib/insertion_sort.js, you should implement the Insertion Sort.

The algorithm can be summarized as the following:

  1. If it is the first element, it is already sorted. return 1;
  2. Pick next element
  3. Compare with all elements in the sorted sub-list
  4. Shift all the elements in the sorted sub-list that is greater than the value to be sorted
  5. Insert the value
  6. Repeat until list is sorted

This is a description of how the Insertion Sort works (and is also in the code file).

procedure insertionSort( A : array of items )
   int holePosition
   int valueToInsert

   for i = 1 to length(A) inclusive do:

      /* select value to be inserted */
      valueToInsert = A[i]
      holePosition = i

      /*locate hole position for the element to be inserted */

      while holePosition > 0 and A[holePosition-1] > valueToInsert do:
         A[holePosition] = A[holePosition-1]
         holePosition = holePosition -1
      end while

      /* insert the number at hole position */
      A[holePosition] = valueToInsert

   end for

end procedure

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