All I did for my Cpp code was copy the example code in the problem and paste it into the sollution and write out the info required. Definitely not a challenge.

We need to talk about the fact that often the tutorials in 30 days of code have nothing to do with the exercise. These things could be structured MUCH more efficiently.

My solution in JAVA:

int totalSwaps=0;
for (int i = n-1; i >0; i--) {
    int numberOfSwaps = 0;
    for (int j = 0; j <i; j++) {           
        if(a[j]>a[j+1]){
            int temp=a[j];
            a[j]=a[j+1];
            a[j+1]=temp;
            numberOfSwaps++;
            totalSwaps++;
        }
    }
    if (numberOfSwaps == 0) {
        break;
    }
}   
System.out.println("Array is sorted in "+totalSwaps+" swaps.");
System.out.println("First Element: "+a[0]);
System.out.println("Last Element: "+a[n-1]);

Python way

def bubble(arr):
    count_swap = 0
    for num in range(len(arr)-1, 0, -1):
        for i in range(num):
            if arr[i] > arr[i+1]:
                arr[i], arr[i+1] = arr[i+1], arr[i]
                count_swap +=1
    return count_swap

print "Array is sorted in {} swaps.".format(bubble(a))
print "First Element: {}".format(a[0])
print "Last Element: {}".format(a[-1])

Hi, I think the Bubble sort Algorithm specified, has a little drawback. The inner loop should not be running to complete length it should be (length-1 - outer loop index) and outer loop also should be running to length-1. i.e. pseudo - algorithm should be this:

    for (int i = 0; i < n-1; i++) {
      int numberOfSwaps = 0;

      for (int j = 0; *j < n -i - 1 *; j++) {
         if (a[j] > a[j + 1]) {
           swap(a[j], a[j + 1]);
           numberOfSwaps++;
         }
       }

       if (numberOfSwaps == 0) {
         break;
       }
   }