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I could have easily written this comment! My favourite programming memory of all time was finally succeeding in turning the pseudo-code at the back of a book[1] that my mom had bought me into a Turbo Pascal program that would generate a Mandlebrot set. It was exhilarating!

[1] http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0671742175/tag=canaamp-20

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Me too - among my first, and best, programming experiences was turning pseudo-code into QBASIC and marvel at the fractals and strange attractors growing on the screen.

I did so as well. I was fascinated that such a simple formula could produce an infinitely complex image. To build it, I used Lazarus/Freepascal and Wikipedia. It’s actually still hosted on Google code.

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