[CSC 315] Ides of September + 7

[Andrew J. Pounds]

Alright -- while I am reasonably confident that most of you could get 
the homework done on time, based on what I saw today I am not optimistic 
about the majority of you getting the programming done by next week.   I 
am therefore planning on moving ALL of the due dates (and the test) back 
one week.   On Thursday I plan on lecturing on clipping (both lines and 
polygons).   I will also discuss briefly the available algorithms for 
drawing circles.   All of this is covered in the handouts and in the 
Whitrow book;  I will, however, extract what I think are the most 
crucial concepts for presentation.    Next week we will have "open lab" 
for you to make significant progress on your programming assignments.  I 
will be present to help you with your coding and may have to give some 
"mini lectures" on how to implement the clipping algorithms in the 
texts.   If you are interested in using git for your code development, 
we may start playing with that some too.

If you haven't looked at your C++ books in a while you may want to pull 
them out and review structs and pointers as many of the graphics codes 
from the texts will use them ubiquitously.

    _NEW DATES:_

    HW 1:  Due September 23, by 5:00 pm

    Programming Assignment One:  Due September 25th, by midnight

    First Exam:  September 30th.


This reprieve gives many of you exactly what you have been asking for -- 
more time.  Use it wisely, ask questions (including using e-mail) and 
let me know what things confuse you.   As some of you have found out, I 
answer e-mail and texts almost 24-7.


-- 
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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