Recurse Center Day 4: Tara Learns to Sort

I don't have a formal CS education, so one thing I'm focusing on at RC is filling in the gaps in my knowledge of data structures and algorithms. Today I focused on sorting algorithms.

I learned about and implemented insertion sort and quicksort, in the process became much more confident with Big O notation. I used to be intimidated by evaluating algorithm efficiency, but as with most unfamiliar concepts, it's much less complicated than I'd made it out to be.

I also started working implementing Raft in Rust. I read the Raft paper a couple of weeks ago and I feel confident that I understand it well enough to jump in and write and implementation. However, I do have a few questions in my notes, so if you know about Raft maybe you'd be able to help me clarify some things?