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Selection Sort

Selection Sort – selection sorting algorithm. Selection of what? The minimum number!!!
The time complexity of the algorithm is O(n2)

The algorithm works as follows:

  1. We go through the array in a loop from left to right, remember the current starting index and the number by index, we will call the number A
  2. Inside the loop, we start another one to go from left to right in search of something smaller than A
  3. When we find the smaller one, we remember the index, now the smaller one becomes the number A
  4. When the inner loop ends, swap the number at the starting index with the number A
  5. After the full pass of the upper loop, we get a sorted array

Example of algorithm execution:

(29, 49, 66, 35, 7, 12, 80)
29 > 7
(7, 49, 66, 35, 29, 12, 80)
Round 1 ENDED
Round 2
(7, 49, 66, 35, 29, 12, 80)
49 > 35
35 > 29
29 > 12
(7, 12, 66, 35, 29, 49, 80)
Round 2 ENDED
Round 3
(7, 12, 66, 35, 29, 49, 80)
66 > 35
35 > 29
(7, 12, 29, 35, 66, 49, 80)
Round 3 ENDED
Round 4
(7, 12, 29, 35, 66, 49, 80)
(7, 12, 29, 35, 66, 49, 80)
Round 4 ENDED
Round 5
(7, 12, 29, 35, 66, 49, 80)
66 > 49
(7, 12, 29, 35, 49, 66, 80)
Round 5 ENDED
Round 6
(7, 12, 29, 35, 49, 66, 80)
(7, 12, 29, 35, 49, 66, 80)
Round 6 ENDED
Sorted: (7, 12, 29, 35, 49, 66, 80)

Having failed to find an Objective-C implementation on Rosetta Code, I wrote it myself:

#include <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@implementation SelectionSort
- (void)performSort:(NSMutableArray *)numbers
{
   NSLog(@"%@", numbers);   
   for (int startIndex = 0; startIndex < numbers.count-1; startIndex++) {
      int minimalNumberIndex = startIndex;
      for (int i = startIndex + 1; i < numbers.count; i++) {
         id lhs = [numbers objectAtIndex: minimalNumberIndex];
         id rhs = [numbers objectAtIndex: i];
         if ([lhs isGreaterThan: rhs]) {
            minimalNumberIndex = i;
         }
      }
      id temporary = [numbers objectAtIndex: minimalNumberIndex];
      [numbers setObject: [numbers objectAtIndex: startIndex] 
               atIndexedSubscript: minimalNumberIndex];
      [numbers setObject: temporary
               atIndexedSubscript: startIndex];
   }
   NSLog(@"%@", numbers);
}

@end

Собрать и запустить можно либо на MacOS/Xcode, либо на любой операционной системе поддерживающей GNUstep, например у меня собирается Clang на Arch Linux.
Скрипт сборки:

        main.m \
        -lobjc \
        `gnustep-config --objc-flags` \
        `gnustep-config --objc-libs` \
        -I /usr/include/GNUstepBase \
        -I /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/12.1.0/include/ \
        -lgnustep-base \
        -o SelectionSort \

Links

https://gitlab.com/demensdeum/algorithms/-/tree/master/sortAlgorithms/selectionSort

Sources

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Selection_sort
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сортировка_выбором
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_sort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ7GYbX7qpM