Linear Search Algorithm

Demonstrates a linear search algorithm.

[tmdbah]

I was driving but I verbally did the exercise. It was both challenging and fulfilling. You are awesome.

[maxfiialkovskyi]

it took me 3 minutes to write it in perl and hour and a half to figure out why it doesn't work.
Then i wrote version in haskell but i forgot to start a clock. Then python in 7 minutes, lua in 8 and a half, and then i tried c++. After 8 minutes of coding i spent 20 minutes trying to understand why this perfectly legit csharp code wont compile.
that was longest 5min long video in my life

[srivanichalla]

It took me about 2mins.. like the way you started the play list. excited to watch further....

[antydsr]

2 minutes. Thanks for your great work. Cheers from Poland! :)

[Icefox]

Hey Jamie! Long time viewer of your videos, first time commenting. Took me about 3 minutes, using Java :) Took me a few minutes to remember some of the syntax, but ended up with almost the same thing you wrote. Second guessed myself actually, and then realized I could refactor to cut out a few lines of code. Keep up the good work, I really appreciate all of your videos!

[joshuaengel]

It took me 10 minutes to write. I did not make it quite as compact as yours. Cool videos, learning stuff!

[uzairhasan]

I love your videos. Love your cat too. Thanks for the great videos and keep up the great work

[meensvenks]

You are awesome! you are awesome! thank you for doing this! Took abt 4-5 minutes... cant wait for the next videos!

[kotic]

so glad I found your account! Really enjoy your teaching style. (5 minutes for the exercise)

[Zlobik]

3:40, C# in VisualStudio, done the same as Jamie. It took me 1 minute to figure out that .Length in a field instead of a method .Length() - that happens.

[aristofanisl]

Hello Jamie! Great job and thank you for you lessons! It took me 3:51 using C# .

[mishegaz]

Linear seach took about a minute because I didn't use Java since I left school. Changed it to a binary search, which took a bit longer since I had to sort it first and I always forget the details of a quicksort. Took about 5min.

[shlude]

Time 1:43. Wrote it in JavaScript because that's the language I am learning at the moment.
2:48 after testing and fixing a typo

[EnduranceT]

3:28 initial time, 5:44 total with manual testing. Probably like 20 mins w/unit tests... I just figured this was a good time to practice Arrange//Act//Assert.

C#.

[DennyLindberg]

I started watching your videos, just for chill, and then you force me to do this exercise! I used JavaScript in the Chrome developer console.

1:20 for writing and testing. I should have added an extra check to test if the object is a true array, I skipped it however because it would be JavaScript specific code.

function indexOf(arr, value)
{
if (!arr) return -1;

for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; ++i)
{
if (arr[i] === value)
{
return i;
}
}

return -1;
}

[sylverg]

Paused the video, did it in Java (my first working Java code, yeah me!), returned a bool and some messages, tried to improve a bit my algorithm, restarted the video to hear you wanted an int back, fixed the method, restarted the video to find out you wanted me to time myself... Looks like I am gonna have to wait for you to ask us to pause the video next time.

[MarkGriep]

7. I appreciate you "forcing" us to do exercises.

[amityanarayan]

there's only one video which made me literally wrote a piece code. Thanks :)

[mariusErimar]

3 minutes. My code looks exactly like yours! (Except for the naming conventions though. And my array was like {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} instead of random, and I had the public access modifiers). Ok, not exactly then, but I did return a -1 after the for loop...

[matthamrick]

To complete this in C#, my timing was 12 minutes [minus ~6 or so minutes from forgetting to pause the timer and going off on a reading tangent about access modifiers ]