[gameprogrammer] Re: 18 hours

When I was a student, the most aggravating part for me was what Scott
mentioned above, Math, and Simple Projects. I know lots of programmers
who still struggle with math, I don't know why, but it hurts my brain.
Secondly, simple projects. I think the only time I spent longer than
30 min on any single assignment was when it was a semester long
project, or an assignment from one teacher who thought up very cruel
assignments(cruel, but fun, the solutions always required that extra
bit of polish). But, all these only took a max of 4 files usually. So
when I actually got a real job programming, all the sudden I had
projects using libraries, 20+ different modules, etc... with no clue
how to put it all together. I think if you start your class with them
writing some simple stuff, and just add/build onto it as you go, so at
the end you have a hefty project file, that requires more than one
compiler command, you would be helping them a lot.


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:32:46 +0000, pjmlp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<pjmlp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For me getting the basics has easy. I mean
> knowing about matrices, vectores and so on.
> 
> While at the university when I got to learn
> CG, I had already finished all our required
> math courses.
> 
> Now getting behind the basics into things like
> lighting or object deformation. That was the
> hard part for me.
> 
> I guess it is easy to know how to do math operations. The
> problem is figuring out what those operations mean when
> translated to colors in the screen.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paulo
> 
> PS: There is an article from Bob in a special
> issue of the software 2.0 german magazine about
> gamme programming. Nice article.
> 
> Citando Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> >
> > Some time this year I will be trying to teach the basics of 3D graphics
> > for game programmers in 6 classes of 3 hours each. It has been a looong
> > time since I learned 3D graphics and so I only vaguely remember what was
> > hard to learn and what was not. The assumption is that the students know
> > how to program in C/C++, but there is no math requirement and no
> > graphics requirement. I have a few other lectures that I plan to use to
> > cover the basics of graphics hardware and I concepts such as a pixel and
> > a surface and so on.
> >
> > What I would like to hear from you is what you, as game programmers,
> > would want to learn. What do you think are key concepts. What was hard
> > for you to learn, and so on. You could help me a lot by telling me about
> > your experiences learning 3D graphics.
> >
> > Oh, yeah... before I forget. What are the books and websites that helped
> > you the most? I tend to stick to Foley & van Dam "Computer Graphics,
> > Principles and Applications". But, I have had complaints from students
> > about using that book.
> >
> > Putting this all together will not only help me with my class, but it
> > should (might) help all of us and future programmers learn the material
> > in a way that is relevant to game programming.
> >
> >
> >               Bob Pendleton
> >
> >
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