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01 // PROJECT AT A GLANCE

C++ POOL — DAY 01

C

Picking C back up after six months of internship, by drawing fractals into a bitmap image.

First day of the C++ pool, and yet everything is still done in C: the goal is to bring everyone back up to speed before tackling object orientation. The day's programme is enjoyable — generating geometric figures and writing them into a real image file you can then open and look at.

C refresher exercises: hand-written packed BMP header, recursive generation of a Menger sponge, minimum-cost path search in a pyramid of numbers, and a square-drawing primitive over an image buffer.

PRIMARYC
DELIVERYTEAM RECORD
VERIFICATIONmake
SOURCEINSPECTOR READY
MEDIA ATTACHMENTS (Images, Photos, Videos)

02 // PROJECT SIGNALS

DATE:
2019
PRIMARY LANG:
C
GRADE:
B
DURATION:
1 day
SECONDARY:
—
STACK:
Makefile / gcc

03 // KEY OUTCOMES

  • A compliant BMP header written by hand, byte by byte
  • A Menger sponge generated recursively

BEYOND THE BRIEF

  • A clean separation between writing the BMP header and the drawing primitives, reusable from one exercise to the next

04 // SOURCE TREE

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