Sorting algorithms are a common exercise for new programmers, and for good reason: they introduce many programming fundamentals at once, including loops and conditionals, arrays and lists, comparisons ...

An insertion sort is less complex and efficient than a merge sort, but more efficient than a bubble sort. An insertion sort compares values in turn, starting with the second value in the list. If this ...

Each run through the list, from start to finish, is known as a pass. The bubble sort continues until a pass is made where no values have been swapped. At this point, the list is sorted. 4, 27, 7, 12, ...