I'm kindoff a beginner in haskell, I've mostly just been exploring the language, some of the introductory books on the subject and writing some small programs. This is one of my first projects I wanted to try out, but I'm feeling a bit lost on how to go about doing it. I want to build a tool which takes in inputs describing algorithms, probably in their imperative form and generate animations using SVG and HTML5 preferably or OpenGL. I find that being able to visualize the execution of an algorithm helped me understand the material a few years ago when i started college but I mostly had to do these on pen and paper. So my higher level idea on approaching this problem is: 1. Create a dsl for describing data structures, e.g Link lists, trees, graphs 2. Create a dsl for describing each step of the algorithms manipulating the data structures 3. The algorithms would be a monadic composition of the step ADTs 4. Lift the algorithm to some monad which carries out the side effects of making changes to a visualization. I'm sorry if I didn't use all the correct terminology for describing the problem, I'm not completely sure if it's an appropriate approach. My logic was that Since each state of the visualization is a sideeffect of executing an algorithm, it would be a seperate monad like IO, the entire algorithm can be represented as some form of a graph, I should have data types representing each component of the graph. I have no idea how to go about designing a DSL or for designing a monad which will handle the animations. Could someone help me approach the solution and what topics I want to look at to understand how to build the solution. Feel free to let me know if you'd like to help work on the tool, or if you think I should simplify my project in some way. This is mostly just an idea for a project and since I'm feeling pretty beginnerish with the language, i wouldnt love suggestions on a simpler project which can sorta lead me in a direction in which i can make this tool in the future. Thank You! -- Adit Biswas