I'm a first year college student, and I relied on my Java experience and the 3 times I've seen Python code to get me through it. Unfortunately, sorting algorith

I'm a first year college student, and I relied on my Java experience and the 3 times I've seen Python code to get me through it. Unfortunately, sorting algorithms were the one thing I didn't pay much attention to, so I was clueless. However, I feel that with a little bit of background knowledge, the problem would be relatively easy.