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Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) folk dance

Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) folk dance on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2013–2021.

AlgoRythmics

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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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a memorable and fun way to visualize how sorting algorithms work.

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2013–2021
“my very favorite visualizations of sorting algorithms are the Hungarian dancers”
— Stratoscope, Dec 2019, in “A cool way to explain logic gates with water [video]”

What HN commenters said

5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

StratoscopeDec 2019Strongly recommends

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!)

in “A cool way to explain logic gates with water [video]” · View on HN

bogomipzFeb 2017Recommends

This is neat. If you enjoyed this you might also like the Hungarian folk dancers demonstrating sorting algorithms on youube: ▶ this video

in “Show HN: Illustrated Quicksort algorithm” · View on HN

_asummersApr 2015Cites it

> 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

in “Computer Science by Mail” · View on HN

evadneMay 2013Cites it

Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) folk dance: ▶ this video Bubble-sort with Hungarian (“Csángó”) folk dance: [link]

in “Algoraves: dancing to algorithms” · View on HN

belterAug 2021Joke

Heap-Sort [link] Binary Search [link] Quick-Sort ▶ this video Bubble-Sort [link] I will bring my dancing shoes to the next FAANG interview.

in “Merge-sort with Transylvanian-saxon folk dance (2011) [video]” · View on HN

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Algorithms & data structuresMagic, puzzles & curiositiesquicksortfolk dancealgorithmsalgorythmicsteaching