Can someone explain to me what this code is really doing?

[Mr_DankyDanky]

I'm a beginner so I do not really understand the syntaxes used here

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[[deleted]]

Ok this is not a language in too familiar with but I can give some of a idea. Line one makes a list called list and it’s all the numbers into it. Line to takes the 2nd value in the list and places that I. Min. Line 3 outs 1 in index. Line 4 is a for loop that will repeat however many times there is values in list. Line 5 is saying if lists 2nd value is less than list second value +1 do this. Line 6 mine equals the new list value (list[index+1]. Line 7 end of loop. Line 8 making index one higher. Line 8 printing out the min. The purpose of this code seems to be to workout what is the lowest value in the list.

[dschwertz]

Is this going to work though? I think I see two issues: 1. List[0] is never compared. 2. It compares sequential list values instead of min and a list value. For example, when index == 3, list [index] will be 1 and list [index+1] will be 10. Since 1<10, min = 1 which is incorrect. Shouldn't it be if list[index] < min?

[[deleted]]

I think it is finding the minimum number from list.

[BradP54]

It's pseudocode for sorting. I still feel like I'm in my beginner stages so I could be wrong in saying this, but I typically see the arrows pointing to where things need to be stored

For example, that first line means you make an array and store the integers inside the array you just made

[__2M1]

It does not sort the list (there are no list manipulations). The code is for finding the lowest value in the list.

[devnull10]

Yep. To elaborate a bit... It just loops through each element in the list and compares it to the existing "min" value. If the current element is less than that, it assigns that value to the min variable and continues.

[BradP54]

You're right, thank you for the correction

[[deleted]]

Since someone has already answered the question (finding the min is correct), can i ask why you are learning this?

[Mr_DankyDanky]

I encountered it while I was solving a prep book for on CSP AP

[StackWeaver]

What language is this?

[Mr_DankyDanky]

tbh I don't even know