Name: Anonymous 2006-08-11 11:24
As I was coding Conway's Life onto my recently bought TI-89, as a follow-up to doing a prime numbers program (shown as an Ulam's Spiral), I had the thought that "Life" must be the "Chopsticks" or "Fur Elise" of Real Computer Programmers-- /anyone/ can do a "Hello World", but only those people who're committed programers ever know about (and implement) examples of Conway's Life on a system they're learning about.
What other programs can people suggest would fit in that category? (I haven't know many others who do my personal Sieve of Erastothenes 'hello world'..) A Mandelbrot calculator is probably another example...
What other programs can people suggest would fit in that category? (I haven't know many others who do my personal Sieve of Erastothenes 'hello world'..) A Mandelbrot calculator is probably another example...