Markov chains are a fun programming project. One of my early web projects was an independent reinvention of the Markov chain: http://experimentgarden.blogspot.

Markov chains are a fun programming project. One of my early web projects was an independent reinvention of the Markov chain: http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/11/software-tool-for-low-order.html http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/11/software-tool-f... This is what happens when you are a self taught programmer who learned mostly from basic coding primers rather than from the internet. I ended up independently reinventing a lot of code and algorithms, including a basic Markov chain implementation such as the one described here.