A security database stores an unsorted list of 15 active access codes in an array. A system administrator runs a linear search to find a decommissioned code that is not present in this list.
Describe the steps the linear search algorithm would take to determine that the decommissioned code is not in the array.
36 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Computer Science Searching and sorting algorithms. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.