S5:E1 - "The simple selection sort"

What is selection sort? How does this algorithm work? And just as importantly, how does it perform? We use broken books and cookies to tell you all about it! Based on Vaidehi Joshi's blog post, "Exponentially Easy Selection Sort".

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Vaidehi Joshi (co-host)

Vaidehi is a writer and an engineer at Tilde, where she works on Skylight. She's the creator of basecs, a weekly writing series that explores the fundamentals of computer science.

Saron Yitbarek (co-host)

Saron is a developer, podcaster, founder of CodeNewbie, and host of the CodeNewbie Podcast.

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