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Coding Challenge #114: Bubble Sort Visualization

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Yes, sorting numbers can be fun! In this challenge I attempt to implement the "bubble sort" algorithm in Processing (Java) and visualize the process itself with animated lines. Code: https://thecodingtrain.com/challenges/114-bubble-sort-visualization (πŸ€–πŸ€–πŸ€–Correction: At 3:53 I incorrectly state that N's growth is exponential, I should have said "quadratic" or "polynomial".) πŸ•ΉοΈ p5.js Web Editor Sketch: https://editor.p5js.org/codingtrain/sketches/3HVrL9m36 πŸŽ₯ Previous video: https://youtu.be/XE3YDVdQSPo?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH πŸŽ₯ Next video: https://youtu.be/OMoVcohRgZA?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH πŸŽ₯ All videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH References: πŸ““ Visualizing Algorithms: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/ Live Stream Archive: πŸ”΄ Coding Train Live 149: https://youtu.be/mfOL2RIyk2c?t=12543s Related Coding Challenges: πŸš‚ #47 Pixel Sorting in Processing: https://youtu.be/JUDYkxU6J0o πŸš‚ #143 Quicksort Visualization: https://youtu.be/eqo2LxRADhU Timestamps: 0:00 Introducing today's topic 1:50 What is a bubble sort? 4:10 Visualizing the array 6:17 Write the sorting algorithm 8:19 Write the swap function 9:30 Animate the sort 12:52 Speed up the sorting 16:41 Conclusion and suggestions Editing by Mathieu Blanchette Animations by Jason Heglund Music from Epidemic Sound πŸš‚ Website: http://thecodingtrain.com/ πŸ‘Ύ Share Your Creation! https://thecodingtrain.com/guides/passenger-showcase-guide 🚩 Suggest Topics: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Suggestion-Box πŸ’‘ GitHub: https://github.com/CodingTrain πŸ’¬ Discord: https://thecodingtrain.com/discord πŸ’– Membership: http://youtube.com/thecodingtrain/join πŸ›’ Store: https://standard.tv/codingtrain πŸ–‹οΈ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecodingtrain πŸ“Έ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.coding.train/ πŸŽ₯ Coding Challenges: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH πŸŽ₯ Intro to Programming: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6Zy51Q-x9tMWIv9cueOFTFA πŸ”— p5.js: https://p5js.org πŸ”— p5.js Web Editor: https://editor.p5js.org/ πŸ”— Processing: https://processing.org πŸ“„ Code of Conduct: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Code-of-Conduct This description was auto-generated. If you see a problem, please open an issue: https://github.com/CodingTrain/thecodingtrain.com/issues/new #bubblesortalgorithm #processing

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[{'end': 28.126, 'text': "And I'm going to start with the bubble sort, one of the most basic sorting algorithms of them, And I might just do a follow up one with,", 'start': 22.402, 'duration': 5.724}, {'end': 31.046, 'text': 'like a selection sword and then a quicksword and other sorts.', 'start': 28.126, 'duration': 2.92}, {'end': 35.328, 'text': 'So suggest all your fancy sorting algorithms in the comments below.', 'start': 31.066, 'duration': 4.262}, {'end': 43.27, 'text': 'But this is inspired by many things, but most notably probably this article called Visualizing Algorithms by Mike Bostock.', 'start': 36.348, 'duration': 6.922}, {'end': 46.011, 'text': 'This is actually an article from 2014.', 'start': 43.95, 'duration': 2.061}, {'end': 51.512, 'text': 'It has a wonderful set of interactive explanations of different algorithms.', 'start': 46.011, 'duration': 5.501}], 'summary': 'Introduction to basic sorting algorithms with inspiration from visualizing algorithms by mike bostock, 2014.', 'duration': 29.11, 'max_score': 22.402, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/67k3I2GxTH8/pics/67k3I2GxTH822402.jpg'}, {'end': 91.668, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 70.215, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 78.78, 'text': "So I think there's a lot of really unique and interesting visual possibilities that you could visualize data and then sort it and visualize that sorting process.", 'start': 70.215, 'duration': 8.565}, {'end': 82.242, 'text': 'Maybe you could sort musical notes, or maybe you could sort text.', 'start': 79.02, 'duration': 3.222}, {'end': 83.583, 'text': "There's so many possibilities.", 'start': 82.423, 'duration': 1.16}, {'end': 89.047, 'text': "So I encourage you to be creative with your own visual interpretation of what I'm going to do and share it with me.", 'start': 83.863, 'duration': 5.184}, {'end': 91.668, 'text': "I'm going to do this in processing, my happy place.", 'start': 89.527, 'duration': 2.141}], 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I sorted it.', 'start': 365.081, 'duration': 1.661}, {'end': 368.223, 'text': 'Good night, thank you very much.', 'start': 367.242, 'duration': 0.981}, {'end': 370.064, 'text': 'See you later.', 'start': 369.624, 'duration': 0.44}, {'end': 374.967, 'text': "No, so I need to write the sorting algorithm myself, so let's do that first.", 'start': 370.264, 'duration': 4.703}, {'end': 382.532, 'text': 'So the first thing I need to do is I need to have i equals 0, i is less than the values.length.', 'start': 375.987, 'duration': 6.545}], 'summary': 'Developing a sorting algorithm using processing with i < values.length', 'duration': 30.459, 'max_score': 352.073, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/67k3I2GxTH8/pics/67k3I2GxTH8352073.jpg'}], 'start': 241.429, 'title': 'Visualizing array data, real-time sorting algorithm, and bubble sort animation', 'summary': 'Covers visual representation of array in 600x600 window, creation of sorting algorithm with emphasis on manual implementation, and successful implementation of bubble sort with global variables in draw loop.', 'chapters': [{'end': 329.656, 'start': 241.429, 'title': 'Visualizing array data', 'summary': 'Discusses how to visually represent an array in a window of size 600x600 using the processing language, including setting up the array, looping over it, and drawing lines to represent the array values.', 'duration': 88.227, 'highlights': ['Setting up a visual representation of an array in a 600x600 window using the processing language.', 'Looping over the array to assign random values based on the height of the window.', 'Drawing lines to visualize the array values in the window.']}, {'end': 491.701, 'start': 329.656, 'title': 'Real-time sorting algorithm', 'summary': 'Discusses the process of creating and implementing a sorting algorithm, detailing the iteration and swapping process, and emphasizing the need for manual implementation instead of using built-in functions, with a focus on achieving real-time visualization.', 'duration': 162.045, 'highlights': ['Emphasizing the need for manual implementation instead of using built-in functions The speaker emphasizes the need to write the sorting algorithm manually instead of using the built-in sort function, highlighting the intention to create a separate function for swapping values in the array.', 'Detailing the iteration and swapping process The speaker details the iterative process of the sorting algorithm, explaining the use of nested loops to check and swap elements in the array, with a decreasing range of elements to check as the iteration progresses.', 'Process of creating and implementing a sorting algorithm The chapter focuses on the process of creating and implementing a sorting algorithm, with an emphasis on achieving real-time visualization of the sorting process on a graphical interface.']}, {'end': 724.326, 'start': 492.062, 'title': 'Sorting and animating with bubble sort', 'summary': 'Explains the implementation of a swap function and the process of sorting and animating with bubble sort using global variables i and j in a draw loop, resulting in the successful completion of the sorting challenge.', 'duration': 232.264, 'highlights': ['The implementation of a swap function is explained, demonstrating the concept of swapping values in an array using temporary storage to prevent overwriting. N/A', 'The process of sorting and animating with bubble sort is detailed, utilizing global variables i and j within a draw loop to execute one step of the sorting process per frame. N/A', 'The successful completion of the sorting challenge is achieved through the correct implementation of sorting and printing the finished message at the end of the process. 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The print line is something I really should take out here.', 'start': 801.415, 'duration': 4.587}], 'summary': 'Implementing 100 iterations per frame, removing unnecessary print line.', 'duration': 25.405, 'max_score': 780.597, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/67k3I2GxTH8/pics/67k3I2GxTH8780597.jpg'}, {'end': 943.153, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 908.026, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 910.767, 'text': 'And then I have some extra brackets here that are totally unnecessary.', 'start': 908.026, 'duration': 2.741}, {'end': 916.429, 'text': 'All right, this should now visualize a little bit faster.', 'start': 910.807, 'duration': 5.622}, {'end': 917.609, 'text': "Oh, that's kind of nice.", 'start': 916.789, 'duration': 0.82}, {'end': 920.27, 'text': 'There we go.', 'start': 919.47, 'duration': 0.8}, {'end': 923.411, 'text': "Now let's make it bigger.", 'start': 921.85, 'duration': 1.561}, {'end': 927.766, 'text': "Let's make it full screen.", 'start': 926.684, 'duration': 1.082}, {'end': 929.849, 'text': 'Come on, everyone.', 'start': 929.048, 'duration': 0.801}, {'end': 940.151, 'text': "So this is my basic sorting algorithm that is doing a bubble sort, but I'm only visualizing every way all the way through.", 'start': 931.727, 'duration': 8.424}, {'end': 943.153, 'text': "So really in the end, it's kind of like a selection sort visualization.", 'start': 940.191, 'duration': 2.962}], 'summary': 'Visualization of sorting algorithm, showing bubble sort and selection sort.', 'duration': 32.346, 'max_score': 908.026, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/67k3I2GxTH8/pics/67k3I2GxTH8908026.jpg'}, {'end': 1021.92, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1001.579, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 1003.039, 'text': 'Make your own beautiful version of this.', 'start': 1001.579, 'duration': 1.46}, {'end': 1005.32, 'text': 'Think about the algorithm a different way.', 'start': 1004.04, 'duration': 1.28}, {'end': 1006.94, 'text': "Think about the data you're sorting a different way.", 'start': 1005.36, 'duration': 1.58}, {'end': 1007.961, 'text': 'Put this on the web.', 'start': 1007.02, 'duration': 0.941}, {'end': 1009.161, 'text': 'Share it with me.', 'start': 1008.581, 'duration': 0.58}, {'end': 1012.982, 'text': 'Sorting Train, hashtag Sorting Train.', 'start': 1010.717, 'duration': 2.265}, {'end': 1014.685, 'text': 'On Twitter, hashtag Sorting Train.', 'start': 1013.282, 'duration': 1.403}, {'end': 1020.798, 'text': "There'll be a link to the TheCodingTrain.com webpage where you also can submit contributions, and I look forward to seeing what you make.", 'start': 1014.705, 'duration': 6.093}, {'end': 1021.92, 'text': 'Okay, thanks for watching.', 'start': 1020.978, 'duration': 0.942}], 'summary': 'Encourage audience to create and share their own sorting algorithms on the web and twitter using #sortingtrain and thecodingtrain.com.', 'duration': 20.341, 'max_score': 1001.579, 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an hour and 10 minutes to complete.']}, {'end': 880.233, 'start': 780.597, 'title': 'Animating selection sort algorithm', 'summary': 'Discusses the process of animating a flawed idea of implementing a selection sort algorithm by iterating through the array and finding the largest element to place it at the end, aiming to perform 100 iterations per frame.', 'duration': 99.636, 'highlights': ['The process discussed involves animating a flawed idea of implementing a selection sort algorithm by iterating through the array and finding the largest element to place it at the end, aiming to perform 100 iterations per frame.', 'The speaker realizes the flaw in the approach, acknowledging that the current method is essentially a selection sort and considering it a spoiler for the next video.', 'The speaker acknowledges a mistake in the approach, realizing the need to swap elements in addition to finding the largest one, extending the length of the video due to this oversight.']}, {'end': 1021.92, 'start': 880.313, 'title': 'Sorting visualization with bubble sort', 'summary': 'Demonstrates a visualization of a sorting algorithm, initially a bubble sort, and later exploring variations and possibilities, encouraging viewers to create their own versions and share them on social media.', 'duration': 141.607, 'highlights': ['The chapter demonstrates a visualization of a sorting algorithm, initially a bubble sort, and later exploring variations and possibilities. The speaker visualizes a sorting algorithm, initially a bubble sort, and later explores variations like selection sort and different data sorting methods.', 'The speaker encourages viewers to create their own versions of the visualization and share them on social media. 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