Getting Started - best to do this in order...

1. How to install FreeGLUT on your own machine. Can download FreeGLUT here: freeglut.zip.
2. How to create an OpenGL/GLUT Program in Windows.
3. Try building and running an existing example Visual Studio project: TestFreeGLUT.zip.

... Also, see our Video for how to login to Visual Studio and setup a project . But please note that in this video places FreeGLUT on the desktop instead. In this case the include and lib directory locations would be different.
... And, see our programming style guidelines.

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Getting Started - using a Mac...

• How to work with OpenGL and GLUT on a Mac .
• Note that the professor doesn't use a Mac so support for using Macs in this course is limited, and may depend on the teaching assistant's familiarity with Macs in a particular year.

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Other Reference Texts

• Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques: Theory and Practice, Alan Watt and Mark Watt. Addison-Wesley.
• Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, David Ebert, F. Kenton Musgrave, Darwyn Peachey, Ken Perlin and Steven Worley. Morgan Kaufmann.
• Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques, Rick Parent, Morgan-Kaufmann.
• Computer Graphics Using Open GL, Francis S. Hill. Prentice Hall.
• Computer Graphics: Mathematical First Steps, William Hall, Patricia Egerton and Pat Egerton, Prentice Hall.

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