If you’re under the impression that something as simple as sorting numbers is dull, think again. This visualization lets you see and hear fifteen different algorithms sift their way through a ju ...

There are many books and classes dedicated to algorithms, but if you are a visual learner ... through algorithms ranging from the common — sorting and linked lists — to the obscure ...

Well, except for maybe binary sort, thanks to the phone book ... there are other ways to understand algorithms through visualization. Failing all that, just watch these Hungarian folk dancers ...

That’s what a new video from the TED-Ed YouTube channel does, by showing how different sorting algorithms can transform our ability to quickly alphabetize a large number of books on a bookshelf.

Known as sorting algorithms, they are one of the workhorses of computation, used to organise data by alphabetising words or ranking numbers from smallest to largest. Many different sorting ...

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending ...