Computer science intersecting with aesthetics on YouTube:
This particular audibilization is just one of many ways to generate sound from running sorting algorithms. Here on every comparison of two numbers (elements) I play (mixing) sin waves with frequencies modulated by values of these numbers. There are quite a few parameters that may drastically change resulting sound - I just chose parameteres that imo felt best.
Bubble sort was an early favorite of mine the video makes the results so inevitable. Quicksort, not appearing here, was the recommended algorithm back in the day. I'm unfamiliar with Gnome sort.
And from Bubble Sort: An Archaeological Algorithmic Analysis (pdf):
What do students remember from their first programming courses after one, five, and ten years? Most students will take only a few memories of what they have studied. As teachers of these students we should ensure that what they remember will serve them well. More specifically, if students take only a few memories about sorting from a first course what do we want these memories to be? Should the phrase Bubble Sort be the first that springs to mind at the end of a course or several years later? There are compelling reasons for excluding discussion of bubble sort 1 , but many texts continue to include discussion of the algorithm after years of warnings from scientists and educators...Starting with Knuth’s premise that “bubble sort seems to have nothing to recommend it”[17], we trace the origins and continued popularity of the algorithm from its earliest days as an unnamed sort to its current status as perhaps the most popular O(n 2 ) sort (see below) despite wide-spread ridicule
blogging note: andrut happens to be Polish. See also his Clouds over Rectangle Town.
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