Ghosh - Radix Sort and Postman Sort

Recommendation

Has Potential

Link

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/dsrkg/cs210/applets/sortingII/radixSort/radixSort.html

Delivery Method

Java Applet

License

Unavailable

Language

English

Author

R. K. Ghosh

ActivityLevel

Step Control; Animation; Random Data

Institution

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Project

Ghosh's Collection

RelationshipToProject

PartOfCollection

Works

Yes

Description

Standard Radix sort implementation, and a second presentation on a Radix sort variant called Postman sort. Stepwise operation, informational messages describe what is happening.

Evaluation

Despite the garish color scheme, this is almost a good visualization. The explanations for what is going on are fairly clear, with a step-by-step progression under user control. The problems are that the animation speed (each step is a mini-animation) is too slow, without any speed control, and the message about what is actually happening gets clobbered at the end of the step. So while the user can control the step progression, within the step there is no sense of control.

GoodFor

Lecture Aid

Screenshots

Videos

References

HowToUse

First Visited

2006-11-06

Last Visited

2008-07-15

Last Updated

2001-08-12

Topic

RadixSort

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