Recommendation

Has Potential

Link

http://dbs.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/research/projects/dsn/

Delivery Method

Java Application

License

Unavailable

Language

English

Author

Jens-Peter Dittrich; Jochen van den Bercken; Tobias Schäfer; Marcus Klein

Institution

Phillips-University of Marburg

Project

Data Structure Navigator

RelationshipToProject

PartOfProject

Works

Yes

Description

It is a tool to describe various the functioning of various data structures. List - Linked list provides the user with a visualization that describes the basic functions such as inserting (at front), deleting and find in a linked list. There is a sorted linked list version, and also sorted and unsorted doubly linked lists. You can find various visualization options on the right hand side of the screen. It also gives you an option to visualize each functions individually. It also gives you the option of inserting either a character or a string. You can increase and decrease the speed of animation too. It also provides a history window that logs every step.

Evaluation

The visualization is pretty simple. Each and every number or string being inserted into the list is neatly visualized. It has a start button to start the animation. But if you want to move one step after another, there is also the next option to see how a link list functions in every iteration. If you decide to skip the operation and go the final step of that operation the tool has a complete button to do that too. The history window is not too detailed. It does not give enough information on how the insertion or deletion or search works. The search feature does not give a feedback when the element is found. This software does not give a good textual feedback which makes it difficult to understand some of the functioning.

ActivityLevel

Step Control; Animation; User Data

GoodFor

Lecture Aid; Self Study

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References

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First Visited

2006-09-02

Last Visited

2008-07-16

Last Updated

2000-07-31

Topic

Lists

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