> I have always suspected that it is like a rite of passage, building at least one simple-minded Mandelbrot renderer.
At the university where I study and work as a TA, all CS students have to write a Mandelbrot generator (we provide a simple GUI for them) in the second programming course.
Everyone is always very happy with the results and many consider it one of the coolest things they've done with programming up until then. I think assignments like those make them more enthusiastic about programming, which we (imo) need more of.
At the university where I study and work as a TA, all CS students have to write a Mandelbrot generator (we provide a simple GUI for them) in the second programming course.
Everyone is always very happy with the results and many consider it one of the coolest things they've done with programming up until then. I think assignments like those make them more enthusiastic about programming, which we (imo) need more of.