HW6 Animation Code Data Definitions

Your HW6 project requires that you develop code that can be used to display animations of various sorting algorithms. There are two different kinds of code needed: sorting code and graphic/gui code. For Quiz10 you need to develop data definitions for the graphic/gui code (the code that draws your animation).

There are many possible ways to animate a sorting algorithm, you need to think about what kind of data is necessary (although to complete this quiz you do not need to determine what the display will look like!).

Some ideas:

• You might want to provide support to draw the state of the algorithm, in which case you need to define what constitutes the state and exactly how this will be represented.
• You might want to draw something to reflect individual operations (rather than the result of those operations).
• You may want to combine both of the above in some way (the display reflects the progress of the sort so far (the state) and the current operation(s)).

In general, this quiz is forcing you to start on the homework, as least so far as to plan out what your animation code will do. Please read the complete HW assignment before doing this quiz. (We expect significant thought about how to best provide general animation support for any number of sorting algorithms!).