reading an array from right to left

Question

ok, so I am suppose to get the algorithm of the selection sort, but modify it were it read from right to left and places the largest number at the end of the array. For example the array {3, 5, 2, 1, 4} will be { 5, 4, 3, 2, 1}. You may say just use the regular sort and then reverse the result, but that is not the way I am looking for. So I attempted this and came up with this result.

reverseSelectionSort( A[0...n-1])
{
    for(int i=n-1; i=>1; i--)
    {
        int min = i;
        for(int j=i-1; j=>0; j--)
        {
            if(A[j] < A[min])
            {
                min = j;
            }
        }
        swap(A[i], A[min])
    }
}

Ok, that is what I came up with. Did I do the algorithm correctly?

Answer 1

Here is an implementation of selection sort in Java (decreading final order).

static void selectionSort(int[] a) {
   for (int i=0; i<a.length-1; i++) {
      int max=i;
      for (int j=i+1; j<a.length; j++) {
          if (a[j]>a[max]) {
             max=j;
          }
      }
      swap(a[i], a[max]);
   }
}