Program / Data Structure and Algorithm Visualization / Simulation

Being able to visualize or simulate how a program, data structure or algorithm is working may help to understand how it is working, help in troubleshooting, teaching, and may be in enhancing it further.

 

Please find some Visualization / Simulation sites below. Please feel free to suggest alternatives.

Data Structure and Algorithm Visualization

VisualGo

• https://visualgo.net/en
• https://visualgo.net/en/list?slide=1

Algorithm Visualizer

https://algorithm-visualizer.org/

David Galles's Site

• https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html
• https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/RecFact.html
• https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/StackLL.html

Algorithms and Data Structures Animations for the Liang Java, C++, and Python Books

https://yongdanielliang.github.io/animation/animation.html

http://cs.armstrong.edu/liang/animation/animation.html

Program Visualization

Java

https://cscircles.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/java_visualize/

Python, C, C++, Java, JS, Ruby, TypeScript

http://www.pythontutor.com/visualize.html#mode=edit

R

https://rdrr.io/snippets/

Web Apps (HTML, CSS, JS)

https://www.w3schools.com/tryit/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_default

Recommended Reading

• https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-debug-a-recursive-algorithm
• https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/180429/is-there-a-way-to-display-the-stack-during-recursion-method
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45071697/how-to-visualize-recursion
• https://www.coursera.org/lecture/principles-of-computing-2/visualizing-recursion-pubjS