Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) folk dance
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as a memorable and fun way to visualize how sorting algorithms work.
What it is
Hungarian folk dancers from Sapientia University act out the quicksort algorithm step by step, with music. It is part of the AlgoRythmics series of sorting algorithms performed as dance.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2013 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec Stratoscope · 2019-12 · on “A cool way to explain logic gates with water [video]”
Friend, I'm not saying you were wrong or trying to argue with you. Just pointing out that different people learn differently, and it's good to have different ways to illustrate and explain things. You never know when one kind of explanation may give someone an "aha" moment that they didn't get somewhere else. And sometimes it's good to do things like this just for fun. For example, my very favorite visualizations of sorting algorithms are the Hungarian dancers: [this video] (Turn the sound up to enjoy the music!)
Recommends bogomipz · 2017-02 · on “Show HN: Illustrated Quicksort algorithm”
This is neat. If you enjoyed this you might also like the Hungarian folk dancers demonstrating sorting algorithms on youube: [this video]
Cites evadne · 2013-05 · on “Algoraves: dancing to algorithms”
Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) folk dance: [this video] Bubble-sort with Hungarian (“Csángó”) folk dance: [LINK]
Cites _asummers · 2015-04 · on “Computer Science by Mail”
> Imagine, for example, trying out different sorting algorithms by using twenty different strips of paper of all different lengths on a table. Or by folk dancing![0] [0] [this video]