12. Spaghetti sort Imagine a handful of uncooked spaghetti, individual rods whose lengths represent numbers that need to be sorted. a. Outline a "spaghetti sort"—a sorting algorithm that takes advantage of this unorthodox representation. b. What does this example of computer science folklore (see [Dew93]) have to do with the topic of this chapter in general and heapsort in particular?

Technician a says that if a valve is open when a piston rises to the very top of a cylinder, the piston may actually strike the valve head and cause serious engine damage. technician b says if the camshaft is located in the engine block, then the engine is called an overhead valve engine, ohv engine, or an in-block camshaft. who is right? a. b only b. both a and b c. a only d. neither a nor b

Acase study allows a more detailed look at the life of a single subject than any other study.

Which of the following statements is false? a. a class can directly inherit from class object. b. if the class you're inheriting from declares instance variables as private, the inherited class can access those instance variables directly. c. a class's instance variables are normally declared private to enforce good software engineering. d. it's often much more efficient to create a class by inheriting from a similar class than to create the class by writing every line of code the new class requires.