package Sorts; /** * @author Varun Upadhyay (https://github.com/varunu28) * @author Podshivalov Nikita (https://github.com/nikitap492) * @see SortAlgorithm */ public class SelectionSort implements SortAlgorithm { /** * This method swaps the two elements in the array * * @param * @param arr, i, j The array for the swap and the indexes of the to-swap elements */ public void swap(T[] arr, int i, int j) { T temp = arr[i]; arr[i] = arr[j]; arr[j] = temp; } /** * This method implements the Generic Selection Sort * * @param arr The array to be sorted Sorts the array in increasing order */ @Override public > T[] sort(T[] arr) { int n = arr.length; for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { // Initial index of min int min = i; for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) { if (arr[min].compareTo(arr[j]) > 0) { min = j; } } // Swapping if index of min is changed if (min != i) { swap(arr, i, min); } } return arr; } // Driver Program public static void main(String[] args) { Integer[] arr = {4, 23, 6, 78, 1, 54, 231, 9, 12}; SelectionSort selectionSort = new SelectionSort(); Integer[] sorted = selectionSort.sort(arr); // Output => 1 4 6 9 12 23 54 78 231 SortUtils.print(sorted); // String Input String[] strings = {"c", "a", "e", "b", "d"}; String[] sortedStrings = selectionSort.sort(strings); // Output => a b c d e SortUtils.print(sortedStrings); } }