Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Science?

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Sci... by jacquesm on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @03:27PM (#34344172)

Sort animations.

https://www.hackerearth.com/practice/algorithms/sorting/quic...

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Sci... by LVB on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @03:47PM (#34344495)

Watching SORTDEMO.BAS at the formative age of ~11 baited me into programming. I recall messing around trying to make even faster versions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leNaS9eJWqo

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Sci... by Eduard on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @03:57PM (#34344649)

Youtube user Musicombo has plenty of videos showing different sorting algorithms in action and their runtime behavior under different (pathological) cases:

e.g.: https://youtu.be/vr5dCRHAgb0

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Sci... by hansjorg on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:10PM (#34344897)

If you're more of a Lindy learner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3San3uKKHgg

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Sci... by jacquesm on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:16PM (#34344976)

That is really neat :)

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Sci... by TheMaskedCoder on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:11PM (#34345747)

I believe this is the original account. They produced several similar videos:

https://www.youtube.com/@AlgoRythmics

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in Computer Sci... by DaveSwift on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:11PM (#34345754)

https://www.toptal.com/developers/sorting-algorithms

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