Such a helpful community.

answer re: Not giving the right answer when putting the largest number at first position of the list

Oct 10 '20

2

You start by setting largest and second_largest to the largest element value (the first one in this case):

largest = nums[0]
second_largest = nums[0]

Unfortunately, that means the expressions:

nums[i] > largest
nums[i] > second_largest

will never be true, so second_largest will never change from its initial (largest) value.

If…

Open Full Answer