The Dining Philosophers problem involves four philosophers sitting around a table of food. A chopstick is placed between each philosopher as depicted. While thinking, the philosophers get hungry. However, the chopsticks to the immediate left and right of any given philosopher are required to eat. Also, any philosopher may become hungry and wish to eat [...]
Read more →William is the second eldest of seven children born in 1987 to a Malawian family (Kamkwamba, 2009) in Africa. They lived two and a half hours away from the capital city (Kamkwamba, 2009). William attended school up to and including grade eight (Kamkwamba, 2009), but was forced to drop out in 2002 (Mwafulirwa, 2006). His [...]
Read more →This tutorial helps you write the simplest possible C program to read Wavefront OBJ files that have been exported from programs such as Blender and render them with OpenGL.
Read more →This program demonstrates OpenGL’s modelview matrix. The user performs view transformations by moving a camera and model transformations by moving a teapot!
Read more →This source code draws a Koch Snowflake.
Read more →OpenGL and Supporting Libraries OpenGL, the Open Graphics Library, is a library that provides a standard interface to graphics hardware. It avoids platform specifics such as window managers and input methods, while focusing on primitive drawing capabilities.
Read more →Let’s create a simple Space Invaders game!
Read more →With special thanks to my instructor, William Kocay, we are hereby making the notes I took for Analysis of Data Structures and Algorithms (COMP 3170) during the 2010 winter term at the University of Manitoba available for all.
Read more →If you used an Apple ][e while growing up, you may have played the animal game. In this game, the computer asks a series of yes or no questions in an attempt to finally guess the player’s animal. If the computer fails to guess the right animal, it asks the player for additional information so [...]
Read more →Have you ever wanted to draw a pixel perfect circle in a highly optimized way? In this article, we’ll cover the midpoint algorithm’s theory and write C code to do just that!
Read more →Elegance is a Windows screensaver. It’s so named for the elegant butterfly curve, discovered by Temple H. Fay, which allowed me to draw butterflies through a relatively simple equation. I threw in animation and a particle system for good luck. Please download it and let me know what you think!
Read more →Have you just completed your first Java based programming course? Are you sick of writing console based text applications? Good news! With this tutorial and its accompanying framework, we can create a Windows screensaver right now.
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