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AP Computer Science 1.1 Standard Algorithms. What is the output of Recurse(3)?

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And here's your shmoop du jour now it's delicious nougat [Selection of nougat filling]

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filling all right the program is in build implement selection sort this

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program like many other sorting programs will sort things are this particular

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program is sorting candy which seems like a fun job in the grand scheme of

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sort ology the program sorts by the ASCII value of the first letter of the

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brand name from highest to lowest candy names are case sensitive so what

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does the list look like after three passes

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all right near your potential answers

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Okay looks like we're being asked to take the first three passes in

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the process of organizing the names of these candies in reverse order according [Candy bars appear]

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to the ASCII standard our deeds in the bottom of this will need a quick

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refresher on the selection sort and we'll need to know a little bit about

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ascii and how to determine what should come first

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well actually let's rewind it even a little more for a moment and go back to [Video rewinds on PC monitor]

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binary all information is ultimately stored and transmitted in binary texts [Binary appears on monitor]

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to read image you see videos you watch all of it deep down just a flood of one [Man watching videos on computer]

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zero the smallest amount of information is a bit a single one or a zero drop

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eight of these bits together and you've got a byte assign a different value to

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each bit in powers that do and you can use those eight bits to represent any

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value from zero to 255 pretty clever all right and of course combined way

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more bytes together and you can represent much more complex data [Bytes combined together]

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pictures of Grandma videos of sneezing pandas unit alright that's beside the [Person looking through tablet for pictures of grandma]

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point. ASCII device is a standard way to

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transmit by different values and have them mean the same thing to the computer

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on the other side the agreed-upon solution starts with a handful of [Pool of binary numbers]

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control codes many of which aren't used in court and then divides into numbers

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capital letters and lowercase letters and there's a tional punctuation

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sprinkled throughout so if anyone were to transmit this byte which holds the [Byte appears]

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decimal value 74 it should represent a capital J to practically any computer

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or device that could receive it well no impossible this is all relevant to the [Man sounds a horn at girl in classroom]

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question it says that we'll be sorting the candies by ASCII values from highest

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to lowest and how we're sorting is another thing selection sort is probably

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the simplest search algorithm to implement it's not great for big jobs [Mechanic fixing a car engine]

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but for a handful of candy bars it'll be just fine all it really does is travel

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down a list finding the lowest value or in our case we'll be looking for the [People wearing numbered shirts on a field]

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highest value and moving that to the front of the list by swapping it with

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whatever was already there then it goes again starting from the next position [People swapping positions]

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and again and so on until the entire array has been sorted okay that said

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we'll be traversing this list of candy looking for the highest value ASCII [Selection of candy bars appears]

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character and according to the Chart it'll probably be a lowercase letter

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while on the first pass M&M is the highest value ASCII character and we'll

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get moved to the head of the line switching places with KitKat next back [Chocolate bars switch position]

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the highest value would be that capital T belonging to Twix which will switch

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with stickers and on our third path skittles will be higher value than the

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others including Snickers ster they both begin with an uppercase s but that means

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the next character would decide it and that lowercase K would be higher value

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on the ASCII chart then an uppercase int alright well after three passes our list [ASCII chart appears]

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now looks suspiciously like option B which would be correct and now if anyone

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wants to ask you a question you can say hey I know that pun and it stinks... [Boy asking question in class]

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