VisuAlgo – visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
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There's also this: https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.ht...
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
Some other related visualization pages that have come up in threads over the years: http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.htm... https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/
Looks like there may be some sort of bug. I clicked on "Hash Table" using Brave on iOS and it opened about 50 tabs, mostly "about:blank" but a number of others like stack overflow, Wikipedia, Wolfram, etc
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- 3
- Total points
- 802
- Total comments
- 48
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-23 | Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation | webdisrupt | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-06-22 | VisuAlgo – visualising data structures and algorithms through animationFirst breakout · Best thread | pera | 280 | 19 |
| 2020-05-18 | VisuAlgo – visualising data structures and algorithms through animation | ilarum | 19 | 0 |
| 2021-02-15 | VisuAlgo – visualising data structures and algorithms through animation | shekhardesigner | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-05-07 | VisuAlgo – visualising data structures and algorithms through animation | abdullahsahin | 2 | 1 |
| 2022-02-26 | Visualizing Data Structures | mgh2 | 10 | 1 |
| 2022-06-24 | Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation | slowhand09 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-08-29 | Visualization of Common Algorithms | thunderbong | 229 | 13 |
| 2024-12-14 | Visualgo.net | animal_spirits | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-03-16 | Visualising data structures and algorithms through animationLatest 20+ point return | tharuntechie | 252 | 14 |