C Class topics
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This is primarily a C class however C++ will be used in later portions of the class in a cursory manner.
While graphics will be covered typical Buisness style GUI programming will not be covered.
We will cover Graphics, Animation, Sound, Keyboard, Joystick, Mouse and serial ports using FREE 16 and 32 bit compilers and FREE Allegro game libraries.
No familiarity with C is assumed.

1. Basic Data types
2. Type Definitions and complex data types.
3. Reverse polish Calculator and a Data Structure.
4. (Optional) Serial Ports in DOS, WINDOWS and Linux with example code in DOS only.
5. GCC (minGW) and Allegro Library in Windows 32/Linux 32 or 64/MAC Programming transition
   Windows envrionment, Linux envrionment and code libraries.  MAC will not be discussed however all code and examples should work on a modern MAC and if you attempt it I will attempt to assist but I do not have a MAC.  Windows 64 bit is supported indirectly again if you attempt it I will attempt to assist but I do not have a 64bit windows computer.
6. Introduction to graphics, plotting pixels, Graphic's primatives, vetor and bitmap graphics
7. Plotting functions
8. Discussion of Flickering concepts, Double buffering, Dirty rectangles and optimizations.
   Discussion Basic Game layout
9. Star builder 
10. TankWar Version 1.
11. Displaying a bitmap.
    Intro to bitmaps
12. Keyboard, mouse and joysticks
    test keys
    test mouse position
    test mouse wheel
    test joystick
    scan joystick
13. star gate game
14. Defense game
15. Sound files and playing sounds
    Midi
    Wave files
    Mixing sounds
16. Bitmap handling
    Tank war Version 2
    BMP, TGA, PCX and LBM Bitmap file formats.
17. Basic Sprite manipulations.
    Drawing, scaling, rotating, translucency
    Sprite examples
    Tank War Version 3
18. Animated Sprites
    Sprite Sheets
    Multiple Sprites
    Tank War Version 4
19. Advanced Sprites
    Compressed and Compiled sprites
    Collision Detection
    C++ Classes and Sprites
    Angular Velocity
20. Game Loops
    Timers,
    Interrupts
21. Tile based Scrolling backgrounds
    Multi File projects
    Scrolling
    Tiles
    Tank War Verion 5
22. Map Management
    Mappy
    Creating levels
    Editing maps
    Tank war version 6
23. Mappy files
    Native Mappy support
    Tank War version 7
24. Vertical Scrolling Arcade Games
    Vertical Scrolling game engine
    Vertical shooter game
    Warbirds game
25. Horizontal scrolling games
26. Game design
26. Datafiles for game resources
27. Playing movies
28. Intro to Artificial Intelligence for games
29. Multi Threading
30. Publishing a game