BeginningCodersBootcamp

• 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