CS 320 Course Materials
Spring 2009

General

• Syllabus: PDF, HTML.
• Final presentation: Monday, May 11 at 3:00 pm.
• Spring 2005 materials.
• OpenGL development environment for Windows. See Eclipse, CDT, and MinGW.

Reading Assignments

• Week 1: Jan. 30: 1.1--1.4.
• Week 2: Feb. 4: 1.5--1.9. Feb. 6: 2.1--2.4.
• Week 3: Feb. 9: 2.5--2.6. Feb. 11: No assignment. Feb. 13: No assignment.
• Week 4: Feb. 16: Read Project 1 description. Feb. 18: Re-read Chapter 2. Feb. 20: Project day.
• Week 5: Feb. 25: No reading. Feb. 27: 3.1--3.3, 3.6.
• Week 6: Mar. 4: 3.4, 3.5, 3.7--3.9. Mar. 6: 3.9.
• Week 8: Mar. 23: 4.1, B.1--B.5.
• Week 9: Mar. 30: 4.1, Appendices B and C. Apr. 1: 4.2--4.9. Apr. 3: 4.6--4.9.
• Week 11: Apr. 13: Chapter 5.
• Week 13: Apr. 29: 6.1--6.3.
• Week 14: May 4: 6.4--6.10.

Projects

• Assignment I, 50 pts. Problems 1--3 due Feb. 16; problem 4 due Feb. 18. PDF, HTML. tetra.c.
• Project 1, 75 pts., due Feb. 27. PDF, HTML.
• Project 2, 75 points: PDF, HTML, poolData.txt. Due Apr. 6.
• Project 3, 75 points: PDF, HTML. Due Apr. 29.
• Project 4, 75 points: PDF, HTML. Due May 8 at noon. Work submitted after this deadline will not be accepted.

Labs

• OpenGL Introduction: PDF, HTML. pentagon.c, quadric.c.
• 2-D Graphics and OpenGL Lab: twodim.c (Refer to comments in source code for lab experiments.)
• Color and Viewport Experiments: PDF, HTML. cube.c, viewport.c.
• Menus, Selection, Display Lists, and "Animation" Lab: PDF, HTML. polygon.c.

Class Outlines

• Week 1: Jan. 28 PDF, HTML. Jan. 30: Continuation of last time. Additional practice exercise.
• Week 2: Feb. 2: C lab. Feb. 4 PDF, HTML. Feb. 6 PDF, HTML.
• Week 3: Feb. 9 PDF, HTML. Feb. 11: Discussion of tetra.c. Feb. 13: tetra.c lab.
• Week 4: Feb. 16 PDF, HTML. Feb. 18 PDF, HTML. Feb. 20: Project day.
• Week 5: Feb. 23: Class canceled. Feb. 25 PDF, HTML. Feb. 27 PDF, HTML.
• Week 6: Mar. 2: Class canceled. Mar. 4 PDF, HTML. Mar. 6: Indivdual conferences.
• Week 7: Mar. 9, 11: Menus, Selection, Display Lists, and "Animation" Lab.
• Week 8: Mar. 23 PDF, HTML. Mar. 25 PDF, HTML. Mar. 27: Discussion of Project 2.
• Week 9: Mar. 30 PDF, HTML. Apr. 1 PDF, HTML. Apr. 3: Project day.
• Week 10: Apr. 6: Project day. Apr. 8 PDF, HTML. Apr. 10 PDF, HTML.
• Week 11: Apr. 15 PDF, HTML. Apr. 17 PDF, HTML.
• Week 12: Apr. 20: Roomview lab discussion. Apr. 22: Project day. Apr. 24: Roomview lab.
• Week 13: Apr. 27: Project day. Apr. 29 PDF, HTML. May 1: GIG.

Class Materials

• Week 8:
  • Mar. 25: collision.c, PDF listing, with line numbers.
  Week 9:
  • Mar. 30: double.c, PDF listing, with line numbers. pong.c, PDF listing, with line numbers.
  Week 11:
  • Apr. 15: cubeview.c.
  • Apr. 17: roomViewLab.c.

  On-Line Computer Graphics Resources

  • www.opengl.org.
  • OpenGL documentation.
  • OpenGL WWW Center.
  • OpenGL Programming Guide (not the most recent edition). This is the "Red Book." PDF.
  • OpenGL Reference Manual "man" pages for gl and glu functions (not the most recent edition). This is the "Blue Book."
  • OpenGL man pages: These are available from a phoenix shell. Speak to the instructor for access.
  • GLUT Programming Interface API "man" pages for GLUT in HTML. PDF.
  • GLUT API, version 3.
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Online!
  • Edward Angel's online resources: Textbook, Primer.
  • Nate Robins' online resources.

  Other Resources

  • C for Java Programmers (PDF).
  • More C for Java Programmers (PDF).
  • C and C++ for Java Programmers (PDF) --- skip the C++ parts.
  • Best Practices for Programming in C. This is excellent advice --- ignore it at your peril.
  • C Coding Style Notes. Additional thoughts on programming style.
  • A Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C; PDF version.
  • C Programming. Pretty thorough --- almost equivalent to a book on C.
  • C Language Reference Manual; PDF version.
  • An Introduction to C Programming (Ed Shmookler suggested this site).
  • The GNU C Library; PDF version.
  • The C Library Reference Guide (also has summary information for C syntax).

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  Tom Kelliher