[HN Gopher] Visualising data structures and algorithms through a...
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       Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
        
       Author : tharuntechie
       Score  : 236 points
       Date   : 2025-03-16 12:19 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (visualgo.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (visualgo.net)
        
       | keku_op wrote:
       | really cool. commenting so i can come back
        
         | NeveHanter wrote:
         | There's HN's favourite function for this.
        
       | tealpod wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | ge96 wrote:
         | For me there was a guided tour thing (dim page, highlight area
         | with dialogue about what it does)
         | 
         | Sort for example though it's the bottom left green options
        
           | stronglikedan wrote:
           | I got the guided tour when I drilled into one, but not on the
           | splash page.
        
       | gnabgib wrote:
       | (2011) Popular in:
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       | 2023 (229 points, 13 comments)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37304870
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       | 2017 (280 points, 20 comments)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14609321
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       | ~2014 (64 points, 4 comments)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8685889
        
       | dssagar93 wrote:
       | Good idea but way too confusing to use the website.
        
       | tda wrote:
       | 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
        
       | davidalayachew wrote:
       | 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.
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-zrayZQj6w
        
         | stronglikedan wrote:
         | Oh, sweet, they have an Eclipse plugin!
        
       | rosstex wrote:
       | I TA'd computer science for 6 years, and this was one of my
       | favorite websites to recommend students.
        
       | sireat wrote:
       | When I teach algorithms and data structures visualgo.net is one
       | of the sites that I recommend.
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       | 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.
        
       | photon_lines wrote:
       | 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...
        
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