Selection Sort - ByTheMark demo exercise

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Task Instructions Apply selection sort to the Input table below. Select the min (in lines 2 and 5) by clicking on the table or in the bar graph visualization. After the minimum is selected, it can be swapped with a[i] (in line 6) by pressing the swap button.
Selection sort SelectionSort(a) 1 for i = 0 to n-2 do 2 min = i 3 for j = i+1 to n-1 do 4 if (a[j] < a[min]) do 5 min = j 6 swap a[i] and a[min]