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Search Query Auto Complete

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Search Query Auto Complete

Search Query Auto Complete is a DSA topic. In plain words you use it for find roll 12 in a sorted list. Don’t start with a slogan — start with that picture.

Smallest example: linear vs binary. Type it, run it, and say what you see. If you can do that from memory, you know Search Query Auto Complete.

From the example next to this theory — Search Query Auto Complete: dry-run [4, 1, 3].

Trap — binary search on unsorted data. Fix that before you talk about advanced DSA.

Viva — what is Search Query Auto Complete? Then show linear vs binary. Then name the trap.

Exam tip

What is Search Query Auto Complete? Show this: linear vs binary. Trap: binary search on unsorted data.

Example

# Search Query Auto Complete
data = [4, 1, 3]
print("start", data)
if data[0] > data[1]:
    data[0], data[1] = data[1], data[0]
print("after one step", data)

Search Query Auto Complete: dry-run [4, 1, 3]. Say the list after one step.

Short notes

  • DefSearch Query Auto Complete — find roll 12 in a sorted list.
  • Rulelinear vs binary
  • Trapbinary search on unsorted data
  • Usea sorted list

Questions

1

What is Search Query Auto Complete?

2

Give one small example of Search Query Auto Complete.

3

What mistake do beginners make with Search Query Auto Complete?

4

Where do you use Search Query Auto Complete?

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