MWF 10:05 - 10:55
College of Computing 101
- Instructor
- Chris Shaw,
cdshaw AT
cc.gatech.edu
- 240 TSRB, 404-894-6328
- Office Hours: by appointment in my office
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- Teaching Assistant
- Tazama St. Julien,
stjulien AT cc.gatech.edu
- Office Hours: After Class Mondays and Wednesdays. (Let me
know in class if you need to talk.)
- Location: College of Computing Building
General Information
This course will provide an introduction to current techniques for
electronic game design and programming. Topics will include computer graphics,
motion generation, behavioral control for autonomous characters, interaction
structure, and social and interface issues of multi-user play.
- To facilitate communication between non-CS team members and
soon-to-be computer scientists on game development projects.
- To provide the future game programmer and designer with concepts
and strategies for making design decisions.
- To expose the future game programmer and designer to tools,
techniques, and ideas for interface design.
- To stress the importance of good game design.
Text
There is a Course Pack for the class. There are copies at the Engineer's
Bookstore in Atlanta.
- CS4455 Course Pack Edited by Chris Shaw
There are some optional texts for the class:
- 3D Games - Real-Time Rendering and Software Technology by
Alan Watt and Fabio Policarpo (In the GT Bookstore)
- Game Programming Gems Edited by Mark DeLoura
- Joystick Nation : How Videogames Ate Our Quarters, Won Our
Hearts, and Rewired Our Minds by J. C. Herz, Michael Pietsch
(Editor) (Out of Print)
- A Programmer's Guide to Sound by Tim Kientzle
You can buy these from Amazon
Books. also the Engineer's Bookstore and the GaTech bookstore
Disclaimer
The professor reserves the right to modify any of these
plans as need be during the course of the class.