C-Sharp VS TheAlgorithms

What I initially viewed as a challenging and sometimes even daunting process transformed into a school of resilience and excellence. The lessons I absorbed from TheAlgorithms were not just theoretical but practical. They found their way into my professional work, where I began to apply the same level of meticulousness and precision. The experience reminded me that in the world of coding, attention to detail and adherence to strict standards can make all the difference between code that merely functions and code that excels.

The previous post on this blog makes another worthless comparison, this time based on lines of code:

https://withinboredom.info/blog/2022/03/16/my-favorite-langu...

> Like, look at this Merge Sort in C# [1] (130 lines) and then look at it in PHP (31 lines) [2]. You can’t beat that kind of productivity, not to mention in PHP, you can even mix data types (like ints and floats) where in the C# version, it’d be much more difficult.

[1] https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/C-Sharp/blob/master/Algorit...

[2] https://www.w3resource.com/php-exercises/searching-and-sorti...

The C# version is the first Google result for "c# merge sort". But a later result is from w3resource.com, which where the PHP code came from. That C# code is only 55 lines and could easily be shorter by replacing loops with standard library calls:

https://www.w3resource.com/csharp-exercises/searching-and-so...

Also, both versions of the code from w3resources.com are trash -- they use an O(N) step to remove an element from the front of the array (array_slice in PHP and List.Remove in C#), which makes them O(N^2 log N), which is even worse than a naive selection sort or bubble sort.

Well, except the better C# comparison would be this one (same place, but sorts an array, not an ISequentialStorage, which the PHP version doesn't even attempt): https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/C-Sharp/blob/master/Algorithms/Sorters/Comparison/MergeSorter.cs

There's a much more sensible C# merge sort implementation in the same repo as the oddly-over-the-top one linked in the article, which is very very close to the PHP one: https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/C-Sharp/blob/master/Algorit...

Is it me or does it not seem very well thought out? Every example I've seen only has implementations in JavaScript and/or Python. I haven't seen any other languages nor a way to search by language. What a "string" means in one language can be completely different in another language. The primitive data types that the project assumes are not really supported across all programming languages.

Also if anyone hasn't already seen them, similar projects already exist and are more complete. E.g.

* https://rosettacode.org/

* https://programming-idioms.org/

* https://the-algorithms.com/

Not to mention LeetCode, CodeWars, Project Euler, Exercism can kinda serve the same role.

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The Algorithms Contains many open source implementations of algorithms. Check it out.

If you want to see implementations of all possible traversal algorithms you can find it here.

The mother load of all algorithms in python is here. dfs/bfs in particular are in the graph section.

There is no one way to learn all these but here are some resources: 1. Gooking algorithms [https://edu.anarcho-copy.org/Algorithm/grokking-algorithms-illustrated-programmers-curious.pdf\] 2. Algorithms in all languages [https://the-algorithms.com/] 3. Node js best practices. [https://github.com/goldbergyoni/nodebestpractices] 4. Refactoring [https://refactoring.guru/] 5. Learn about Clean Code and Clean Architecture from uncle bob. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeXQEJNWO5w&ab_channel=StreamAConStreamingConferences

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I would recommend The Algorithms, it comes with descriptions and examples in multiple programming languages.

There's also The Algorithms. Many implementations are unfortunately low quality. The Lua ones (disclaimer: I wrote them) should be fine however.

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