[CSC 315] Webpage Updates

[Andrew J. Pounds]

Alright -- on the web page you will now find copies of homework 2, 
programming assignment 2, and the group programming assignment. These 
are all found in the HOMEWORK section.

I also added some more examples to the website and included a 
Mathematica notebook for transformation matrices to help you all see 
what is going on.  We will look at it more on Tuesday.  You need to 
start working on the homework now so you have some idea of what we are 
trying to accomplish next week.

Next Tuesday we will also get "down and dirty" with actually doing the 
animation process in your arrow.  While you have all of the "animation 
machinery" in the movedot program I gave you, you most likely are still 
missing the pieces to actually transform the arrow.

Work for this weekend....

First:  I have included a matrix multiplication program in 
/pub/pounds/CSC315/codesFromClass called vmatm.c.   This program uses a 
linear memory addressing style for matrices that is found throughout 
most of my programs.   If you have another method of accessing matrices 
-- that accomplishes the same task and accesses memory in the same 
linear manner -- I would like to see it.    I know that you can do 
things like mat[][], but the mechanism of setting these up properly and 
moving memory segments into and out of functions (requiring pointers to 
arrays of pointers) has always seemed a bit much to throw at students 
who struggle with pointers in the first place.

Second: Get your screen and arrow ready.  You need an array of points 
for your arrow, probably best to go with an array of vertex structs).

We are going to work a lot in class next week -- I am going to want to 
see code from EVERYBODY.  If you are not ready to move with me you are 
going to fall way behind.


-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds_aj at mercer.edu)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627
http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj

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