Practice Swapping Elements (16.4.1) - Selection Sort - Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
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Swapping Elements

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Question 1 Easy

What is selection sort?

💡 Hint: Think about how we organize things that are mixed up.

Question 2 Easy

How does selection sort improve searching?

💡 Hint: Consider how we search in a phone book.

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Question 1

What is the primary mechanism of selection sort?

A) Quickest first
B) Select and swap
C) Bubble and sort

💡 Hint: Think about how selection sort selects elements.

Question 2

True or False: Selection sort requires more space than some other sorting algorithms.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider how selection sort organizes its data.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Implement the selection sort algorithm and analyze how performance degrades for lists of increasing size (1, 10, 100,...).

💡 Hint: Measure time taken for each size in increasing order.

Challenge 2 Hard

Design a modified selection sort that counts how many swaps are made during sorting.

💡 Hint: Think about where to place the counter in the sort.

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