Practice - Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
Practice Questions
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What is Selection Sort?
💡 Hint: Think about how you would sort numbers manually.
How does sorting improve searching?
💡 Hint: Consider how you would search in a phone book versus an unsorted stack of papers.
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What best describes the core action of Selection Sort?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens to the list as it sorts.
True or False: Selection Sort is optimal for very large datasets.
💡 Hint: Consider how the time complexity scales with input size.
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Challenge Problems
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How would you adapt the Selection Sort algorithm to sort in descending order? Provide both algorithmic steps and a code snippet.
💡 Hint: Consider how the selection process changes when reversing the sort order.
Develop a comparison chart showing the performance of Selection Sort versus other sorting algorithms such as Bubble Sort and Quick Sort on datasets of varying sizes.
💡 Hint: Think about how you would measure the execution time in Python.
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