15.4Programming Activity:Tracking How Many Statements are Executed by a Method1135
Figure 15.1
Animation of the Pro-
gramming Activity
3.Estimate the running time ofSelection Sort as a function ofn,the
number ofelements in the array being sorted.
The framework for this Programming Activity will animate your algorithm
so that you can perform a simulation on the number of statement execu-
tions inside the selectionSort method compared to the number of elements
in the array that is sorted. For example, Figure 15.1 shows the current num-
ber ofstatement executions for an array of 15 elements.
At this point,the application has executed 50 statements. ...
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