After I have written and defended my masters degree thesis (So graduated from the University) I was a little bit burned out from all of this work and stress so I did not started some new project immediately (I was basically out of ideas and will power). But one late winter evening while scrolling through my tweeter feed I stumbled upon a book called "Mazes for Programmers Code Your Own Twisty Little Passages" by Jamis Buck. Yes! Book about mazes. BTW it was retweeted by Chad Etzel @jazzychad currently an apple engineer, who is making really nerdy stuff...
The book explains throughly how maze creating/solving algorithms work and how to use them. The code examples were written in Ryby, so for a challange I had written the code in python which sometimes can be tricky - for example I had to write a handler class over a low level PNG library in Python to enable drawing capabilities - my graphics displays experience did not go to waste! (Ruby had this capabilities build in 😃). You can follow my progress with the book on github.