Wednesday, April 13, 2011


Sorting

The weather on Monday afternoon was gorgeous here. Thermometers rose into July temperatures. The sun was shining and there was not a cloud in the cerulean sky. I blame said conditions on my short burst of spring cleaning.

I suppose it is fitting that while I was sorting out the laundry and the little fix-it projects around the house, my programming students were working on wrapping their heads around the selection sort and insertion sort algorithms. We coded them up in the Java programming language a couple of weeks ago in class. Never thought about implementing them in folk dances.

Educational entertainment*


* Not precisely accurate but gets the point across.

4 yarns:

Chris said...

That is such a bizarre way to teach programming! O.O

I've been working the spring cleaning thing on long weekends for the past three weeks.

mrspao said...

I've been spring cleaning too. Nothing like the impending arrival of visitors to make me get on with it.

I was very amused by this way of teaching programming when I saw it.

Kim said...

When I was in grad school, I used both merge sort and bucket sort to sort graded exams by name. Never thought of doing it in a dance.

Wendy said...

That's fabulous!! I almost understood how that worked - yay me!!!