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Write a method insertionSort that performs an insertion sort, as described in Programmin...

Write a method insertionSort that performs an insertion sort, as described in Programming Project.Revise the method selectionSort within the class ArraySorter, as shown in Listing so that it sorts the strings in an instance of the class ArrayList into lexicographic order instead of sorting the integers in an array into ascending order. For words, lexicographic order reduces to alphabetic order if all the words are in either lowercase or uppercase letters. You can compare two strings to see which is lexicographically first by using the String method compareTo, as described.

Add a method insertionSort to the class ArraySorter, as given in Listing that performs an insertion sort of an array. To simplify this project, our insertion sort algorithm will use an additional array. It copies elements from the original given array to this other array, inserting each element into its correct position in the second array. This will usually require moving a number of elements in the array receiving the new elements. The algorithm in pseudocode is as follows:

Insertion sort algorithm to sort an array a

for (index = 0; index ‹a.length; index++)Insert the value of a[index] into its correct position in the arraytemp, so that all the elements copied into the array temp so farare sorted.

Copy all the elements from temp back to a. The array temp is partially filled and is a local variable in the method sort.

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