fwd-tutorial #3: javascript magic

Come for the poetry, stay for the controversy!

Yes, we’re putting lines of poetry aside for the moment.

We’re trading them in for what used to be known as a ‘phone book‘. Those of you old enough to remember may recall that physical book used to look up someone’s telephone number (which was usually attached to a landline!) In this tutorial, we’re going to take a close look at the typical search algorithm used for sorted lists and offer an optimization. You can find the demo (called a whispering-descriptive-pump) here.

For further discussion see my “adventures in comp. sci. article“…

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