PhD student Timo Bingmann has created an amazing video showing sorting algorithms in action. And it's surprisingly awesome!

Selection sorts perform numerous comparisons, but fewer data movements than other methods. See sort algorithm. (2) A search for specific data starting at the beginning of a file or list.

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending ...

Direct selection upon entities themselves is but one possibility among many. This paper discusses why hierarchy demands that sorting and selection be disentangled. It then presents and illustrates an ...