CSC329: Introduction to Game Programming - Spring 2006
Dr. Christian A. Duncan
duncan@cs.miami.edu

Course Information

• Course Syllabus (Lecture 1)
  (Tu, January 17)
• Lecture 2
  (Th, January 19)
• Lecture 3
  (Tu, January 24)
• Lecture 4
  (Th, January 26)
• Lecture 5
  (Tu, January 30)
• Lecture 6
  (Th, February 2)
• Lecture 7
  (Tu, February 6)
• Lecture 8 (Illustrated Glade)
  (Th, February 8)
• Lectures 9-15
  (Tu, February 13 - Tu, March 7)
  Team break-out groups, to work on game development.
• Lecture 16 (Stage Two Presentation)
  (Th, March 9)
  

Resources

• BlackBoard Site: Discussion Groups, Mailing Lists, other course info...
  Try this direct link to the course: May not work unless you are already logged in.
• C++ for C Programmer's Reference (ok, nothing spectacular. And some things appear slightly incorrect but nothing serious).
• C++ Tutorial Looks good so far.
• There are many other C/C++ tutorials. Use Google to find a decent one. And if you find one, let me know so I can add it here!
• Java 2 Documentation (and APIs)
• Makefiles Manual (Local copy: single HTML page or Postscript Page or PDF)
• HOWTO Use Concurrent Version Control System (CVS): HTML documentation or PDF version
  A Quick and Dirty Guide
• Standard Template Library (STL)
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming: (multi-formats) Thanks to Dimitri for referring me to this one.
• Information for GUI/Graphics Stuff Please browse the following links and add others as you find them, by emailing me.
  • Need help Installing OpenGL and GTK+ on your home Windows machine?
    I tried to document what I did to get it to work for myself. Hopefully, this will help you out as well.
  • Free Country has links to lots of free compilers, graphics, game, sound libraries.
  • A SIGGRAPH'97 Course on OpenGL and GUI integration
  • Fast Light Toolkit
  • GTK+ and OpenGL (on SourceForge)
  • TOGL: Tcl/Tk OpenGL Widget
  • TkOGL: A possibly more recent version.
  • LessTif: Free Motif replacement.
  • List of GUI Toolkits: Seems to be a nice starting point for more searches.
  • Curses Programming Tutorial: Allows drawing on a terminal window, using characters. This is for AIX programming but should still translate mostly to Linux.
  • Here are some 2-d art tutorials and tools for the graphics aspect. At least there is 1 so far!
    • So You Want to Be A Pixel Artist?
    • Pixen: MacOSX Pixel Editor