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I think it would be worth revising this lab. I see a number of submissions to the midterm fractal in which students created a different block for each level of the fractal (missing the point of recursion), where each of those blocks calls the others. I think this idea was inspired by the beginning of the lab (the exercises on this page). It tells them to make tree1 and tree2, etc. but I think it is wrong to have them actually make those scripts since it is not what we want sticking in their heads. I think we can leave that content there but change the exercise so that it really emphasizes the use of "levels" as an input parameter to the recursive block and the fact that making each level its own block is inefficient.