2 Questions From 2001 Asq Girls High Trial HSC (1 Viewer)

[Dario]

Can anyone offer help on these ?

1.The members on a basketball team are lined up on a court. The coach selects the tallest player and moves her directly to the head of a second, new line. the coach repeats the process with the remainding members of the first line, each time noving the tallest player to the head of a new line. Identify this general type of sorting process

-- I thought it was a selection sort. But why are the "players" moved into a new "line" ?

2. What ASCII cahracter is often used in the data stream sent to a hardware device to distinguish between data characters and control characters ? Give an example of this.

-- I haven't found a reference to this subject anywhere.

Thanks for any posts guys (and gals) !

 

[SamD]

It's a selection sort. You don't have to use a single array, thats just a more convenient implementation.

I suspect the answer is supposed to be the ESCape character but who knows! I suspect this is a question relating to something the've done at their particular school. You wont be asked this in the HSC and if you are I'll send you a hundred dollars!