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On 12/07/2016 09:47 PM, <br>
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order to use the selection sort in our program, do we need to
copy the SelectionSorter.java class into our code? I'm
confused on how to use selection sort.</div>
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Let's make this REALLY simple. Since you already wrote a method in
program four which essentially did the bubble sort -- which we said
in class today should run at roughly the same order as the Selection
sort -- then you can just use the same sorting method you used in
program four. You will have to modify it to work with ArrayLists,
but that should not be terribly difficult (although it will require
some thinking about how ArrayLists operate).<br>
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are we supposed to be sorting based on the 25 hottest and
coldest average temperatures or the hottest and coldest
recorded daily temperatures every recorded?</div>
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You are sorting the ArrayList based on the hottest and coldest daily
temperatures. Remember, each temperature in the daily file is the
average temperature for that particular station on that particular
day. Sorting an array of objects this big with either the
selection sort of the bubble sort will take some time.<br>
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Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pounds_aj@mercer.edu">pounds_aj@mercer.edu</a>)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj">http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj</a>
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