Data Structures for non developers, GSOC 2020

[mcintyre]

I think this could be a very interesting project. @Jithin, the lead developer of Dynamic Learning, was also thinking about data structures and creative coding recently (see below).

Improving data structures and algorithms skills through creative coding

It might be interesting to generate a couple of short lists: one of projects you’d like to tackle and another of data structures you’d like to use. It may take a few projects, but I bet you’ll find opportunities to apply each data structure where it’s best suited. For reference, I’m a fan of Allen Downey’s teaching style and use Think Java in my AP CS A course. His other Java book, Think Data Structures, was fun to work through as well–I built a search engine! Perhaps you can scaffold your proj…