Indigo Code | Coding the Mandelbrot - C++ Tutorial @IndigoCode | Uploaded 9 years ago | Updated 54 minutes ago
In this video, I create a C++ program from scratch that will generate Mandelbrot images, and walk the viewer through the process. I move really fast, assuming that you know about complex numbers, the basics of the Mandelbrot set, and the basics of C++ functions, while loops and file I/O.

Links:
PPM file specification - http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppm.html
Wikipedia on the Mandelbrot set - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set
GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/