[Edu-sig] Algorithms Animator Open Sourced

[davelist at mac.com]

This looks interesting - thanks for making it available. I'm not  
familiar with launchpad - is there an easy way to download the source  
using svn or is there a .tar.gz file somewhere?

Thanks,
Dave

On Sep 15, 2008, at 1:10 AM, DiPierro, Massimo wrote:

> I agree.
>
> Anyway, I made another page about the animator and I am posting a  
> video there in 1hour.
>
> http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/Teaching/Algorithms
>
> Massimo
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Edward Cherlin [echerlin at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 4:19 PM
> To: DiPierro, Massimo
> Cc: edu-sig at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Algorithms Animator Open Sourced
>
> Thank you. Presumably we could apply the same approach to teaching
> elementary-school arithmetic algorithms, maze traversal algorithms,
> and the like for One Laptop Per Child. I have suggested this to their
> Education mailing list.
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:14 PM, DiPierro, Massimo
> <MDiPierro at cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>> I open sourced this. In the hope it is useful to some of you.
>>
>> Algorithms Animator
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/algorithms-animator
>>
>> Python application that implements and animates interactively those  
>> algorithms that are normally covered in an undergraduate course on  
>> the topic. It includes Insertion Sort, Quicksort, Mergesort, AVL  
>> Tree Search/Insert/Rebalance, Depth First Search, Breadth First  
>> Search, Topological Sort, Prim, Kruskal, Dijkstra, LCS, Huffman- 
>> Fano, and more. It is extensible. All the API are exposed. It  
>> includes a ready-to-run Windows executable (bin/ 
>> AlgorithmsAnimator.exe), some documentation and a short tutorial  
>> about running time analysis (doc/csc321notes.pdf). This program was  
>> originally designed in 2003 for teaching "Design and Analysis of  
>> Algorithms" at DePaul University. All the algorithms in the source  
>> code (src/csc321algorithms.py) are equivalent line-by-line to the  
>> pseudo-code in the MIT CLRS "Introduction to Algorithms" book.
>>
>> Massimo
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