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AP Computer Science 3.5 Standard Algorithms. What does the list look like after three passes?

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and here's your shmoop du jour now it's delicious nougat

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filling all right the program is in build implement selection sort this [Question appears]

00:11

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

00:16

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

00:20

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

00:26

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

00:31

does the list look like after three passes

00:34

all right near your potential answers

00:40

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 DS in the bottom of this we'll need a quick

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

00:56

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 screen]

01:03

binary all information is ultimately stored and transmitted in binary text

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you read image you see videos you watch all of it deep down judge the flood of [Man watching videos on computer]

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1-0 the smallest amount of information is a bit a single one or a zero strap

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

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

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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

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pictures of Grandma videos of sneezing pandas units [Person looking at picture of Grandma]

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all right that's beside the point ASCII device was a standard way to

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transmit by different values and have them mean the same thing through the [ASCII device linked to computers]

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computer on the other side the agreed-upon solution starts with a

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handful of control codes many of which aren't used in quarters and then divides [Control codes jump into pool]

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into numbers capital letters and lowercase letters and there's a tional

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punctuation cycle throughout so if anyone were to transmit this byte which

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holds the decimal value 74 it should represent

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a capital J practically any computer or device that could receive it well no impossible

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this is all relevant to the question it says that we'll be sorting the candies [Boy sounds a horn to girl in classroom]

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by ASCII values from highest to lowest and how we're sorting is another thing

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selection sort is probably the simplest search algorithm to implement it's not

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great for big job but for a handful of candy bars it'll be just fine [Man working on a car engine]

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all it really does is travel down a list finding the lowest value or in our case [People with numbered t-shirts appear on field]

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we'll be looking for the highest value and moving that to the front of the list

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by swapping it with whatever was already there then it goes again starting from [People re-arrange order]

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the next position and again and so on until the entire array has been sorted

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okay that said we'll be traversing this list of candy looking for the highest

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value ASCII character and according to the shark it'll probably be a lowercase

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letter while on the first pass M&M is the highest value ASCII character and

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we'll get moved to the head of the line switching places with KitKat next back [M&M switches with KitKat bar]

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

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with Snickers and on our third path skittles will be higher value than the [Skittles value shown on chart]

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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 after chart then an uppercase int alright well after three passes our list

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now looks suspiciously like option B which would be correct [Option B circled]

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and now if anyone wants to ask you a question you can say hey I know that pun

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and it stinks [Girl giving thumbs down at boys joke]

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