You can also start with simpler things, like drawing 3D graphs of equations, rendering and shading 3D shapes, and plotting Mandelbrot sets. For me, that was fu

You can also start with simpler things, like drawing 3D graphs of equations, rendering and shading 3D shapes, and plotting Mandelbrot sets. For me, that was fun and visual, with simpler math. Example of sin(x)+cos(y) : http://maxima-online.org/examples.html http://maxima-online.org/examples.html