I like Cortesi's take on algorithm visualization: http://corte.si/posts/code/visualisingsorting/index.html http://corte.si/posts/code/visualisingsorting/index.h

I like Cortesi's take on algorithm visualization: http://corte.si/posts/code/visualisingsorting/index.html http://corte.si/posts/code/visualisingsorting/index.html My sense is that animated visualizations are good at giving an intuitive sense about performance, but static visualizations are better for understanding how an algorithm works. If I was implementing a sorting algorithm I'd rather have one of Cortesi's visualizations on hand.