11.1.2 - Strategy for Sorting
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What is Selection Sort?
💡 Hint: Think about how you arrange numbers in order.
What is the time complexity of Selection Sort?
💡 Hint: Consider how many times you loop through the list.
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What is the main advantage of sorting an array?
💡 Hint: Think about how you find items in a sorted list versus an unsorted one.
Is Selection Sort an efficient algorithm for large datasets?
💡 Hint: Consider how many iterations are involved in Selection Sort.
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Implement Selection Sort in Python and test it with an unsorted array of random numbers.
💡 Hint: Remember to iterate through the list multiple times, finding and swapping the minimum.
Given a list of integers sorted in descending order, apply Selection Sort and note the performance. What do you observe?
💡 Hint: Consider how looking for the minimum is different in a list that's already sorted.
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