Well, except for maybe binary sort, thanks to the phone book ... there are other ways to understand algorithms through visualization. Failing all that, just watch these Hungarian folk dancers ...

Like all complicated problems, there are many solutions that can achieve the same results, and one sort algorithm can re-sequence data faster than another. In the early 1960s, when magnetic tape ...

That’s what a new video from the TED-Ed YouTube channel does, by showing how different sorting algorithms can transform our ability to quickly alphabetize a large number of books on a bookshelf.