Thomas

All the above advice given by others is good advice.

One thing that I would add, is don't put it off.  It's much
harder to learn as you get older, and much harder to work hard
too.

Give yourself a goal and put all your energies into achieving
that goal, and don't get disheartened if you don't achieve quite
the way you would like to.  We all make mistakes and that is how
we learn.  

Good luck.

Steve

Thomas Lake wrote:
> 
> Well I've been reading/posting/replying to this newgroup for some months
> 
> now and I have always been interested in and even more so now, with the
> advent of all these fractal images, the more mathematical and technical
> sides of pov-ray. I've always wanted to know how people create these
> amazing fractal patterns and neat abstract shapes many of which are
> featured in the examples that come with Pov-Ray. Also I am VERY
> interested in learning how to create my own Macros, just for the fun of
> it, I have endless ideas for macros, most of them useless but fun
> anyway. What I'd like to know is just where should I start to learn any
> of this? I know almost no programing, well a little JavaScript, and I
> don't know any math beyond very basic algebra. Now I have played around
> with some simple fractals, like the examples which come with Lparser,
> and I even began to start to understand them but only very basically. If
> 
> anyone could point me to any good resources for a beginner in these
> areas, i.e. macro's and fractals, I would be very appreciated. Oh and
> please keep it simple, I'm 17 and therefore don't understand and
> university level algebra,calculus,chaos therory,cosmology or super
> string theory. :-)

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