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Sorting Algorithms — Boring Until You Add Sound

Posted by Soulskill on from the bloop-bleep-bloop dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Anyone who's ever taken a programming course or tried to learn how to code out of a book will have come across sorting algorithms. Bubble, heap, merge — there's a long list of methods for sorting data. The subject matter is fairly dry. Thankfully, someone has found a way to not only make sorting more interesting, but easier to remember and understand, too."

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  1. Try it with people by twoshortplanks · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's always more fun to do this with real people (sort by height, for example). The London Perl Mongers tried this as a drinking game: You get enough people down the pub (or, in one this case, outside a bar in portugal during conference season) and apply booze. Then bubble sort them as a group (lots of shouting Stay! Switch!.) Add drinking penalties when people screw up the algorithm. You get the idea.

    There's a video on the internet somewhere. Free pint to the first person to find it.

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    1. Re:Try it with people by siriuskase · · Score: 2, Funny

      No way, I don't want to stand near a guy who's only 5' 4". That's normal for women, but guys like that tend to have defective personalities. I like to stand near the tall guys.

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  2. Re:No Quicksort? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I also noticed that they have Gnomesort, but not KDEsort. :-)

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  3. The sound of bubble sort by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's strange. When I listen to the sound of bubble sort all I hear is one of my college professors threatening to hunt me down and kill me in my sleep if I ever use it.

  4. Re:Easily amused by oldspewey · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll create an audio interface using Visual Basic ... see if I can track an IP address.

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  5. Re:Sorting Out Sorting by SilverEyes · · Score: 3, Funny

    I did watch it again after I posted my comment, I was wrong. I misremembered the video. The annoying sounds are unrelated to the algorithm.

    This guy did have not-annoying sounds related to the algorithm. Also the quality is much higher.

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    Interesting.
  6. Re:No Quicksort? by Tanktalus · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was looking for Bogosort myself, actually.