CS40 Intro

Getting started with Computer Graphics
Welcome to Computer Graphics. This course serves as an introduction to the area of graphics. We will learn many of the basics of modeling and rendering from a modern OpenGL approach. This course will feature lots of programming, and lots of math, but the math is not super complex. We will design many cool projects, but if you are expecting to design a full fledged 3D game, or the next LOTR movie, this course will not meet your expectations. This course is designed around understanding core concepts and prepare you to explore more advanced topics in computer Graphics.

Reading

Please get the text book and read over Chapters 1 and 2. Be sure to read 1.2.1, 1.2.2 and 1.3-1.8. You can skim/skip the rest of Chapter 1. Don't worry about programming details or the actual Sierpinski Gasket in Chapter 2. Read for concepts and ideas, not code fragments. While the book uses glut as the windowing environment, we will be using QT which has similar functionality but completely different syntax.

An Overview of Computer Graphics

Software Tools

Math Concepts

Hardware

Wednesday

Getting Started

This semester I would like to replace our homemade handin/update system with something a little more modern/useful: git. This is an experiment in progress. To get started, I will need a public SSH key from you. If you have one, great! If not, we'll create one. First run update40, then follow the instructions for Creating SSH keys. Test your setup by running ssh-add then trying to connect to another CS host. You should not be asked for your CS password. Next copy your public SSH key to your cs40/pubkey directory. 
cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ~/cs40/pubkey
Now wait while I feed the unicorns... You should now be able to clone the git repository for the course. This will hopefully replace update 40 
cd ~/cs40
git clone gitrepos:cs40s13 code
cd code
git checkout -b working
Wednesday Lab
Lab Exercise
Friday
Piazza: You should have received an invite. Please sign up, ask questions. Class startup

Wednesday review

Using CMake 
cd ~/cs40/code
mkdir build #if it doesn't already exist
cd build
cmake .. #if you haven't run cmake before
make -j4 #compile
You compile, run, and test programs in the build directory. You edit source files outside of the build directory. You may want to have one terminal window open for running programs, and a separate terminal for editing.

Using QT

Today I would like to walk through the creation of simple QT application and demonstrate qtcreator. For more details, see the exercise on the course wiki.

Practicing git

verify that any recent changes have been committed to your working branch 
git status
git add <file>
git commit
switch to the master branch and get changes 
git checkout master
git pull
git checkout working
git merge master
You should have a Friday.txt file. This file is silly. You can remove it from version control 
git rm Friday.txt
git commit
Use git rm or git mv to remove/move files under version control.

Monday Preview