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of the tree watching others to dance fight for the top position. Best explanation
I could imagine”; “I like how the heaps are represented as a family”; “The most
profound visual explanation of linear sorting that I have ever seen! The crea¬
tivityi i i ”; “(Quick sort) I can feel their bliss when each got both of the hats,
found his place and can rest peacefully. (15 years of CS here)”.
Comments that emphasize the uniqueness and innovativeness of the visual¬
izations are also common. For example: “I think I just found a new continent”;
“Knuth needs to update Volume 3 with this”; “Art + Music + Logic + Sorting
= This Awesome Video. Thank you very much”; “They really put the ‘rhythm’
in ‘algorithm’”; “They are Gems. Never imagined someone could come up with
such creativity”; etc.
Some users draw attention to Hungarians in the comments: “That is why
John von Neumann was born in Hungary”; “This is why Hungary has the high¬
est number of no[b]el prize winners per capita”; “Brings a whole new meaning
to “Hungarian notation’”; “I believe that this should now be named as the
‘Hungarian Sort’”; “I am a software developer listening Hungarian Rhapsody
No.2 and YouTube recommends me this. LOL!”; “Thank you to the YouTube
algorithm for deciding to show me this video! I studied mathematics for a month
in Budapest in 1998. This is beyond words so fantastic”; “This and kiirtés kalacs
are the only reasons why God invented Hungarians”.
Evidently, not all comments are positive. Most of these blame the videos for
being too long. For example: “(Quick sort) Wow, even slower than bubble sort,
Hungarian folk dancers just aren’t a good architecture for running sorting algo¬
rithms”; “No multi-threading? Come on, optimize your dancers already!”; etc.
The selection below is intended to help readers perceive more directly the
taste and the aroma of appreciating comments:
— “Most beautiful thing I have ever seen in programming teachings”; “Terrific
Love the Overall Concept”; “This is so satisfyingly systematic”; “Good
idea for effective learning”; “Well demonstrated! Unconventionally, but
well”; “Creativity level: infinite”; “Excellent! Great job, very good idea for
illustrating an abstract thing”; “Now that’s what I call interpretive dance!”;
“This is the way we should learn about serious things in Computer Science.
Awesome videos”; “So didactic”
— “30 years working in IT, this is clearly the highlight; This is no joke the
best learning tool for these algorithms I’ve ever seen”; “Was 5 minutes ago
watching sorting algorithm videos wondering what was happening? I now
understand”; “Forget about theoretical explanations... this is the best way
to understand sorting algorithms”; “Ok, thank you. I had a hard time try¬
ing to understand shell sort, here I understood literally after 30 seconds”;
“Never thought that this algorithm is understandable”; “Amazing! Makes
it so easy to understand the whole process and, of course, is a funny way
to get into another countries’ folk dance. Congrats for the awesome work!”