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roy@popmail.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith):
< I'm really struggling to find programming assignments I can give
< which will be useful and interesting to him.

    I don't know how much you're planning on teaching, but imaging
operations on graphics files might be one answer.  On the programming side,
he will have to learn pointers (memory alloc & free), multiple indexing
(simple pointer and doubly-indexed arrays), and file I/O.  In addition, he'd
have to learn some file format and be able to read and write a file of that
format (I don't have a particular simple one in mind, though).

    The graphics side is very simple -- just about anything you do to an
image is magic when you're new to it.  For example, read in a simple image
and then write three files:  one red, one green and one blue.  Or write out
the four CMYK files.  Other possibilities include smoothing (just average
neighbors in some way) and sharpening (smoothing with different components
=^).

    Don't know how well this will mesh with his expertise, but I expect that
it might excite him enough to plow into it.

                                         Steve <hollasch@acm.org>