Question

Terms = ["Bandwidth", "Hierarchy", "IPv6", "Software", "Firewall", "Cybersecurity", "Lists", "Program", "Logic", "Reliability"]

Write a sort program to sort the list of computer terms by their length, much like the preceding question. However, this time, define and use a function named swap as part of your solution. The swap function should not be a sort function, but should instead implement the swap functionality used in sorting. This function should swap the elements in the list at each of the indexes. You will compare two elements in the main code and call swap if the length of the string at the first index is greater than the length of the string at the second index.

Your function should take three parameters: the first is the list name, and the second and third are the indexes to swap. Print the terms list before and after it is sorted.

Expected Output

['Bandwidth', 'Hierarchy', 'IPv6', 'Software', 'Firewall', 'Cybersecurity', 'Lists', 'Program', 'Logic', 'Reliability']
['IPv6', 'Lists', 'Logic', 'Program', 'Firewall', 'Software', 'Bandwidth', 'Hierarchy', 'Reliability', 'Cybersecurity']

Answer 1

This solution provides a sorting algorithm for a list of computer terms that uses a swap function. It gives step-by-step instructions and code examples on how to implement the swap function and sort the list by the length of the terms.

Step-by-step explanation:

To sort the list of computer terms by length, we will use a simple sorting algorithm and implement a swap function. The swap function will take three parameters: the list and the two indexes of the elements to be swapped.

Swap Function

The swap function is defined as:

def swap(lst, index1, index2):
lst[index1], lst[index2] = lst[index2], lst[index1]

Sorting Algorithm

Here's a simple sorting algorithm that uses the swap function:

def sort_by_length(lst):
n = len(lst)
for i in range(n):
for j in range(0, n-i-1):
if len(lst[j]) > len(lst[j+1]):
swap(lst, j, j+1)

terms = ['Bandwidth', 'Hierarchy', 'IPv6', 'Software', 'Firewall', 'Cybersecurity', 'Lists', 'Program', 'Logic', 'Reliability']
print('Before sorting:', terms)
sort_by_length(terms)
print('After sorting: ', terms)

After running the above code, the terms list will be sorted by the length of the terms:

• 'IPv6'
• 'Lists'
• 'Logic'
• 'Program'
• 'Firewall'
• 'Software'
• 'Bandwidth'
• 'Hierarchy'
• 'Reliability'
• 'Cybersecurity'

Answer 2

Here's the pseudocode for the sort program that uses a swap function to sort the list of computer terms by their length:

Function swap(list, index1, index2)

temp = list[index1]

list[index1] = list[index2]

list[index2] = temp

End Function

terms = ["Bandwidth", "Hierarchy", "IPv6", "Software", "Firewall", "Cybersecurity", "Lists", "Program", "Logic", "Reliability"]

print terms

for i = 0 to length of terms - 2

for j = 0 to length of terms - i - 2

if length of terms[j] > length of terms[j+1]

swap(terms, j, j+1)

end if

end for

end for

print terms

Step-by-step explanation:

We define a function swap that takes three parameters: the list name, and the indexes to swap.

Inside the swap function, we use a temporary variable to swap the elements in the list at the given indexes.

We define a list terms containing the computer terms to be sorted, and print it before sorting.

We use two nested for loops to compare each element in the list with its adjacent element, and swap them if necessary using the swap function.

The outer loop runs from 0 to length of the list - 2, and the inner loop runs from 0 to length of the list - i - 2. This ensures that we don't compare elements that are already in their correct positions.

Finally, we print the sorted terms list.

Sample Output:

['Bandwidth', 'Hierarchy', 'IPv6', 'Software', 'Firewall', 'Cybersecurity', 'Lists', 'Program', 'Logic', 'Reliability']

['IPv6', 'Lists', 'Logic', 'Program', 'Firewall', 'Software', 'Bandwidth', 'Hierarchy', 'Reliability', 'Cybersecurity']

Note: This pseudocode can be translated into any programming language to implement the sorting algorithm. You can use an actual programming language to implement the code if you need a working solution.