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From: James L. <jam...@gm...> - 2009-12-05 17:56:31
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Hi Matt, Thanks! Yeah, I love the idea of visualizations that show how the algorithms work. I've been intrigued by the idea ever since my first algorithms course when my professor showed us sorting algorithms in a similar fashion. Excellent! I see three main areas of things to do: 1. Add some new algorithms in Java 2. Start algorithms in a new language 3. Work on visualizations of algorithms I have a Trac instance set up and there are a bunch of bugs in there of things to do; they all fall into one of the above three categories. If one of those strikes your fancy, go for it! Additionally, I only listed some algorithms in the Trac bugs; So, if there is a particular algorithm you want to implement, we'll add a bug to Trac and you can start working on it. And, of course, I would be happy to provide guidance and help. :-) The URL: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/algstudy/ Good question about the wiki-like site. Two thoughts come to mind for me. First, the goal of algorithm study is to augment the types of information that already exist. The two specific areas on which Algorithm Study focuses are: 1) real implementations of common and less-common algorithms in a variety of languages, and 2) visualization tools to help in gaining a deeper understanding of the algorithms. Additionally, I want the text included with the code to reference the more traditional resources that are available (books, websites, wikis, articles, papers, ...). Second, the Javadocs for the java implementations are posted on the AlgorithmStudy.com website. Since much of the discussion is placed in the Javadoc comments, these pages become a pretty good reference on their own. We may be able to create additional documentation like this from source code in other languages, but it will be very similar in nature. Finally, a few other notes. 1. Join the mailing list. Let's make future discussion open on the list so it gets some activity. (I'm going to send a selection of this response to the list as well.) 2. Please read through the links under "Contributing" on the Algorithm Study website (left menu bar) and the FAQ. There isn't too much there yet, but they answer some questions and should set the tone for some of the development processes I want the project to follow. Best, James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Rathbone" To: "James Linder" Sent: Friday, December 4, 2009 10:26:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Algorithm Study Hey James, So I checked out your Algorithm Study site, love the visualizations, that whole thing will be incredible when you have the full set of algorithms! I'd like to help contribute at some point, I was thinking maybe over winter break to start with, then on from there? Let me know what you'd like to get done next and what I need to do to submit algorithms. Do you think it would be worth having a wiki-like site so that people can read your algorithms and what you write about them without having to get the source code? Have a good Friday (and weekend). Matt |
From: James L. <jh...@jl...> - 2009-03-15 05:08:02
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Hi! Welcome to the Algorithm Study project mailing list. This list is the best vehicle for communicating with the Algorithm Study community. If you have questions, are interested in contributing to the project or simply want to talk about the project, please join the list and introduce yourself. Regards, James Linder |