I have had several students who never seemed to get excited about *anything* become almost hysterical on exposure to bubble sorting.
I think it must conform to some notion about what programming should be like. For the record, the others which have elicited such responses have been a generic XML parser which rebuilds any XML document as indented (i.e. 'unordered list') html (ho hum) and (more exciting) secret sharing algorithms for use in distributed data systems. Patrick Carmichael > However I do see beauty in one of the less efficient sort algorithms > (bubble sort), quick sort is fun as well, but merge sort is nicer in > my opinion. I also love graph algorithms. > > So what are other people's feelings about the classic algorithms?[2]
