The Tower of Hanoi is a classic problem that lends itself well to a recursive solution. The story involves some poor monks having to move 64 disks of different sizes (with central holes for the pegs) from one peg to another. There are three pegs, all the disks started on the first peg (in size…
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A Graphical Dice Simulator
This PyGame program simulates the roll of a die (or dice if you prefer). It’s a fairly simple, straightforward thing to do, though it may be worth noting that the spots display is oh-so-slightly clever. Some spots appear in more than one number, e.g. the middle spot is in all the odd numbers, hence the…
Naive Mandelbrot Set
This is your basic Mandelbrot Set plotter. Very little effort made to speed it up, except for plotting top & bottom pixels together as they’re mirrored across the x-axis. Later I’ll show you some much faster programs! The heart of this program is the iteration of z2+c where c is a point in the complex…