Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation • Hacker News Board

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Post by TallboyOne » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 2:34 AM UTC

Whitespace wrote: post #3

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

I gave up 3 times and eventually came here because I couldn't get it to play. That should not be this confusing.

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Post by n1ghtmare_ » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 4:22 AM UTC

This is just awesome! I absolutely love it! Bookmarked for life!

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Post by rodrigoavie » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 4:22 AM UTC

Thank you again, Steven Halim!

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Post by jmcgough » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 6:26 AM UTC

I've never been able to really grasp an algorithm without seeing a visualization or stepping through it myself - this is awesome ^^

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Post by modarts » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 8:19 AM UTC

I think merge sort finally 'clicked' for me after watching that animation. This is an incredible learning tool.

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Post by feider » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 11:01 AM UTC

slow hosting (from singapore?) just killed the possible experience.

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Post by iamleppert » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 11:55 AM UTC

Awesome! I love it when people do stuff like this!

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Post by SIGALRM » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 2:29 PM UTC

this is a really cool link, thanks for posting it!

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Post by nitishmd » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 2:31 PM UTC

Excellent! Thank you. If this code is open sourced may be people can contribute a lot more algorithms!

Re: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

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Post by peeters » Tue, Aug 19, 2014, 3:10 PM UTC

pushedx wrote: 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.

I don't know, I think that part needs some work. Of the 10 questions on bitmask, I had 2 questions show up twice, with the same values too.