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Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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If you click "Start Training" in the upper right, you will be asked a series of randomly generated questions on a topic of your choice. So far I've tried the BST training and Bitmask training. I have to say that this is the best randomly generated quiz system that I've seen. There are obviously some very smart people behind this.

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Since it took me a while to figure out, here's a hint: click on the card, then click the disclosure arrow on the lower left, then click around until you see "GO"

Example: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~stevenha/visualization/sorting.h... » Click the > in the lower left » Sort » GO

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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This is incredible. Often times in a typical data structures class students can get have a difficult time developing intuition for things like BSTs and sorting. This is an awesome tool!

Not only that, but it covers some very useful DS/A like Binary Index Trees and Computational Geometry to which many students are never exposed.

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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post #2

If you click "Start Training" in the upper right, you will be asked a series of randomly generated questions on a topic of your choice. So far I've tried the BST training and Bitmask training. I have to say that this is the best randomly generated quiz system that I've seen. There are obviously some very smart people behind this.

Steven Halim, the person behind this, was my lecturer for the competitive programming class I took in my sophomore year. Super nice guy who is really passionate about teaching!
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