Sorting Algorithms

Description

Sorting algorithms are used to put elements of a list into an order, either numeric or lexicographical. In this application, I hope to show various sorting algorithms and their strengths or weaknesses. While perhaps not the most straightforward implementation for this project, I wanted to demonstrate knowledge of distributed systems, sorting algorithms, API usage, and interfaces/abstract Classes. Ratings are just my opinion on each algorithms' speed and efficiency.

Algorithm	Complexity	Rating
Selection sort	O(n^2)	2/5
Bubble sort	O(n^2)	2/5
Insertion sort	O(n^2)	3/5
Bogo sort	O((n+1)!)	0/5

Installation

• clone this repository to your workspace
• navigate to the flask directory in a command line interface
• create the virtual environment(venv) by entering python -m venv .venv.
  • Note: .venv is the name for the resulting environment. You may name this however you wish, just replace .venv with your desired name in these commands.
• activate the virtual environment:
  • if on Windows:
    • .\.venv\Scripts\activate
  • if Mac/Linux (bash shell):
    • source .venv/bin/activate
• install necessary packages to the venv: pip install -r requirements.txt
• run flask with flask run to start in dev mode
• in a second terminal window, navigate to frontend directory
• run the react frontend with npm run start

Thanks

• Tech with Tim (youtube) for a jumping-off point and helpful pygame tutorial
• Mike C & Billy F for the guidance and experience
• Susuwatari for her endless rubber duck debugging help 🐱

Bugs / Issues

• It's not finished yet!

ToDo / Improvements

• Improve playback controls
• Increase visual clarity of swaps/passes made
• add a warning/confirmation before submitting bogo request (long response times)
• add descending sort options

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 Alex Johnson

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