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I thought this was particularly well done.
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You know, I’ve written the algoritm, both tail recursive and iterative and yet that is the first time I understood it clearly.
(too lazy to work it out mentally, I guess)
- pdwalker | 12/23/2011 @ 07:44This is awesome. I periodically teach the different sort algorithms at a local college. This would prove quite helpful as an illustration.
- Physics Geek | 12/23/2011 @ 14:59You know what was really helpful to me for this stuff, was writing a routine that would accept a callback, with the callback taking responsibility for doing the compare (what the robots are doing here). That way you have a layered approach, with the sort layer defining the way the algorithm works, and the application layer declaring the criteria (like, is it case sensitive, are we smart enough to put the “Mc” names after “M”, etc.)
If your callback routine starts printing information to the console about what it’s being invoked to do, and where, it becomes very easy to envision what’s taking place. It also helps illustrate this thing about bubble-sort being least efficient because of the greater number of iterations…
- mkfreeberg | 12/23/2011 @ 15:08