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Selection Sort

The least intelligent sorting algorithm, it typically has the worst performance of sorting routines, and learns nothing to improve its actions as it traverse the array:

Class

using System;

namespace Algorithms
{
    class SelectionSort
    {
        public SelectionSort()
        {
            int[] arrayToSort = { 11, 1, 22, 2, 33, 3, 44, 4, 55, 5, 66, 6, 7, 77 };
            Sort(arrayToSort);
            Console.WriteLine("End");
        }

        public int[] Sort(int[] arrayToSort)
        {
            int currentMin;
            int max = arrayToSort.Length - 1;
            for (int counter = 0; counter < max - 1; counter++)
            {
                currentMin = arrayToSort[counter];
                int newMinCounter = counter;
                for (int innerCounter = counter + 1; innerCounter < max; innerCounter++)
                { 
                    if (arrayToSort[innerCounter] < arrayToSort[newMinCounter])
                    {
                        //set new min
                        newMinCounter = innerCounter;
                    }
                }

                if (newMinCounter != counter)
                { 
                    //swap old value with new
                    arrayToSort[counter] = arrayToSort[newMinCounter];
                    arrayToSort[newMinCounter] = currentMin;
                }
            }

            return arrayToSort;
        }
    }
}

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