🔍 What’s the Big Deal About Selection Sort?

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.” – William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan

In life, we constantly face moments of choice.
Who will you walk with? What will you do first?
Ultimately, these choices shape the course of your life.

In programming, there’s an algorithm that embodies this same idea —
Selection Sort.

Selection Sort repeatedly finds the smallest value in the list,
and moves it to the front, step by step, until the entire list is sorted.

It’s a lot like setting priorities in life:
finding the most important task right now, and acting on it.
That’s the philosophy of Selection Sort.

📚 How It Works

Selection Sort works as follows:

  1. Find the smallest value in the list and move it to the first position.
  2. From the remaining list, find the smallest value again
    and move it to the second position.
  3. Repeat until the list is fully sorted.

This algorithm seems to say:
“Choose what matters most right now.”

💻 Selection Sort in Python

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def selection_sort(arr):
    n = len(arr)
    for i in range(n):
        # Find the index of the minimum value
        min_idx = i
        for j in range(i+1, n):
            if arr[j] < arr[min_idx]:
                min_idx = j
        # Swap the current element with the minimum
        arr[i], arr[min_idx] = arr[min_idx], arr[i]
    return arr

# Test
print(selection_sort([29, 10, 14, 37, 13]))

🎯 Wrapping Up

Selection Sort is simple yet follows a clear principle:
always choose the smallest at each step and act accordingly.

While it may not be the fastest algorithm,
it teaches us the importance of setting priorities.

“The more complex life gets, the more important it is to choose what matters first.”
Selection Sort reminds us to sort life in the same way. 😊