Standard Algorithms: Find Minimum/Maximum.

There are two standard algorithms here, with a similar layout.

Find Maximum:

set array to [1,2,3,5,4,6,5,7,6] #creates an array of numbers
maximum = array[0]

from 1 to length of array - 1: #we are starting the comparisons from the first number
if array[counter] > maximum:#remember counter increases every time the loop is run
	maximum = array[counter] #we change the maximum to the new largest number.
	
display the highest score.

Find Minimum (real python)

Note that this standard algorithm only changes the comparison sign from > to <.

marks = [12,15,50,22,11,88,50,90,42,33]
minimum = marks[0]
for item in range(1,10):
    if marks[item] < maximum:
        minimum = marks[item]
print(maximum,"is the lowest number in the list of marks\n")