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Wisnu Anggoro
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Wisnu Anggoro is a Microsoft Certified Professional in C# programming and an experienced C/C++ developer. He has also authored the books Boost.Asio C++ Network Programming - Second Edition and Functional C# by Packt. He has been programming since he was in junior high school, which was about 20 years ago, and started developing computer applications using the BASIC programming language in the MS-DOS environment. He has solid experience in smart card programming, as well as desktop and web application programming, including designing, developing, and supporting the use of applications for SIM Card Operating System Porting, personalization, PC/SC communication, and other smart card applications that require the use of C# and C/C++. He is currently a senior smart card software engineer at CIPTA, an Indonesian company that specializes in innovation and technology for smart cards. He can be reached through his email at wisnu@anggoro.net
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Building a binary heap ADT


A binary heap is a completely binary tree that is usually used to implement a priority queue. Please look at the following binary tree which is representing the priority queue:

As we can see, each node has its own key and there's also a number below each node to indicate the priority of the element (in this example, the maximum element has higher priority). The priority queue is usually represented in an array, so we can have the following array as a representation of the preceding priority queue tree:

To create a binary heap in C++, we will have the heapSize variable, which will be increased when an element is inserted and will be decreased when an element is removed. There are four basic operations in a priority queue, and they are as follows:

  • IsEmpty() is used to check whether the queue is empty
  • Insert(), similar to the Enqueue() operation in a Queue data structure, is used to insert a new element into the queue
  • GetMax(), similar to the Peek() operation in a Queue...
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Wisnu Anggoro

Wisnu Anggoro is a Microsoft Certified Professional in C# programming and an experienced C/C++ developer. He has also authored the books Boost.Asio C++ Network Programming - Second Edition and Functional C# by Packt. He has been programming since he was in junior high school, which was about 20 years ago, and started developing computer applications using the BASIC programming language in the MS-DOS environment. He has solid experience in smart card programming, as well as desktop and web application programming, including designing, developing, and supporting the use of applications for SIM Card Operating System Porting, personalization, PC/SC communication, and other smart card applications that require the use of C# and C/C++. He is currently a senior smart card software engineer at CIPTA, an Indonesian company that specializes in innovation and technology for smart cards. He can be reached through his email at wisnu@anggoro.net
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