Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation (visualgo.net)

really cool. commenting so i can come back

I don't understand how to use this site. There is no movement or voice or what to do next after I go to a page.

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Good idea but way too confusing to use the website.

Great idea, I checked a few. Searching for a value in an array didn't work, and then the hash table visualisation makes no sense to me at all. So overal feeling kind of meh about this

The IDE that I use is called jGRASP (https://www.jgrasp.org/) and it has a viewer that shows off the changes in data structures over time.

Here is an example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-zrayZQj6w

I TA'd computer science for 6 years, and this was one of my favorite websites to recommend students.

When I teach algorithms and data structures visualgo.net is one of the sites that I recommend.

However, I prefer the visualizations from USF: https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.ht... - not as pretty but in my experience students pick up ideas from these faster.

Fantastic resource - just an FYI I just posted a 'visual' review of most of the key algorithms used in comp sci and the real world which is available here: https://photonlines.substack.com/p/visual-focused-algorithms...