These links take you to places on the web where visualizations and related CS education resources are available. We catagorize them into two types:
- Repositories: This is a place that collects/hosts visualizations and courseware. It is a primary server for this material. One advantage of these is that the materials will hopefully not disappear.
- Link collections: These are pages that point you to various locations on the Internet that hold the actual materials. These are far easier to put together and maintain than a repository, since they have no need to physically host and serve the materials. However, links go dead frequently. Link collections do not age well unless they are actively maintained.
Repositories:
CITIDEL: Computing and Information Technology Interactive Digital Educational Library. It now accesses nearly half a million entries, including papers and courseware. CITIDEL is the computing education portal to the National Science Digital Library. CITIDEL is being replaced by Ensemble.
Computer Science Teaching Center (CSTC): This is one of CITIDEL's source collections and is no longer active.
Connexions: A "collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software tools to help." Content is broad, with relatively little CS material.
MERLOT: Multmedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.
Link Collections:
AlgorithmAndDataStructureVisualizations Wiki: This site. It will soon be replaced by The AlgoViz Portal.
http://www.animal.ahrgr.de/animations.php3: Guido Rossling's Animation Repository
http://www.cs.montana.edu/webworks/webworks-home/: WebWorks, maintained by Rock Ross at Montana State University, Bozeman.
NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures: Attempts to be a comprehensive "dictionary" for data structures and related terms. Some entries have pointers to "demonstrations," which are often visualizations. Recently/currently active.
SIGCSE Educational Links: A compendium of links for courseware and visualizations. It includes a smaller listing of links (15 at last view) to a broad variety of visualization resources, many of which are themselves collections.
Hope College "Complete Collection of Algorithm Animations" 2001. Seems reasonably complete for its time, with pointers to many early visualization construction systems. Unfortunately, many of the links are no longer valid.
SMETE: SMETE Digital Library for Science, Mathe, Engineering, and Technology Education materials. Actually, its at least partly a link collection, not a true Digital Library (meaning, not a repository).
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