2019-09

• Day 1: Graphics, variables and functions
• Day 2: Parameters, returns and conditionals
• Day 3: Objects, arrays and vectors
• Day 4: Polylines and classes
• Day 5: Review

TODO: motivation behind each exercise (pre and post conditions / pre reqs and outcomes) TODO: asteroid -> astroid TODO: "turn to student next to you" moments

Day 1

• Create and run openFrameworks projects

• Introduce basic C++ syntax

• Use openFrameworks graphics functions (ofDrawLine, ofDrawCircle etc.) in the draw loop

• Understand the painter's algorithm

• Declare and assign primitive variables (int, float)

• Use variables to reduce redundancy

• Declare and define functions

• Generalize a function with parameters

• ADD: introduce cout here earlier

• ADD: strings?

Day 2

• Use cout to log values

• Use ofRandom to produce random numbers in various ranges

• Draw shapes with different colors; understand how ofSetColor fits into painter's algorithm

• Put variables in ofApp.h that persist over the lifetime of the program

• Use the openFrameworks setup function to initialize variables

• If statements

• ADD: While loops here

• For loops

• Nested for loops (MOVE TO DAY 3?)

• Use the sin function for animation

• Write functions that return values

• Understand state updates of the form x = transform(x)

• ADD: Celsius / Fahrenheit example

• ADD: another example?

• ADD: Boolean types and logic

• ADD: More if statements and for loops

• ADD: introduce while loops here

• ADD: more for loop drawing problems

Day 3

• Review variables

  • Life cycle of variable
  • Variable types
  • Variables in functions vs. variables in .h file

• Review functions

  • What is a function?
  • Parameters
  • Return values
  • CHANGE: move function example from day 3 to day 2?

• Introduce C++ objects as containers for groups of variables

• While loops (CHANGE: move to day 2)

• Arrays

• Vectors

• average temperature

• average position w polyline

Day 4

• Use Polylines to draw shapes
• How to share openFrameworks apps
• Using the openFrameworks update function
• Basic intro to C++ classes (member variables, functions)
• Transformations
• Using pushMatrix / popMatrix to remember transformation state
• 3D graphics
• Basic Lighting in openFrameworks

Day 5

• Nested transformations
• Perlin noise
• Keyboard input
• Using openFrameworks addons