Practice - Swapping Elements
Practice Questions
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What is selection sort?
💡 Hint: Think about how we organize things that are mixed up.
How does selection sort improve searching?
💡 Hint: Consider how we search in a phone book.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the primary mechanism of selection sort?
💡 Hint: Think about how selection sort selects elements.
True or False: Selection sort requires more space than some other sorting algorithms.
💡 Hint: Consider how selection sort organizes its data.
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Challenge Problems
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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.
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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