Practice Programming, Data Structures And Algorithms In Python (16.1) - Selection Sort
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Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms in Python

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is Selection Sort?

💡 Hint: Think about how you would sort numbers manually.

Question 2 Easy

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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Question 1

What best describes the core action of Selection Sort?

Creating a new list
Swapping elements directly
Finding the median

💡 Hint: Think about what happens to the list as it sorts.

Question 2

True or False: Selection Sort is optimal for very large datasets.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider how the time complexity scales with input size.

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Challenge 1 Hard

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.

Challenge 2 Hard

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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