CMSC 425

Course Schedule (tentative)

Date	Lecture	Topic	Lecture notes	Resources
8/27 (Tu W1)	01	Intro to game programming	Lecture1: Intro Lecture1: Mount notes
8/29 (Th)	02		Lecture2: Game Engine Lecture2: Mount Notes	Paddlebox.zip ThreeStatementDraw.pde
9/3 (Tu W2)	03	Intro to Unity	Lecture3: Unity Lecture3: Mount notes	Scanned notes
9/5 (Th)	04
9/10 (Tu W3)	05	Geometry and Geometric Programming	Lecture5: Geometry Lecture5: Doc camera notes (short) Lecture4: Mount on Geometry	Objectives for geometry unit
9/12 (Th)	06		Lecture6: Doc camera notes Lecture5: Mount on Geometry II	Notes on lines and planes Tweening
9/17 (Tu W4)	07	Geometry and Geometric Programming continued	NO LECTURE
9/19 (Th)	08		Lecture8: PowerPoint Lecture8: DocCam notes
9/24 (Tu W5)	09	Colliders	Lecture9: Colliders	Ray Circle Intersection Scanned notes
9/26 (Tu)	10	Colliders		Scanned notes
10/1 (Tu W6)	11	Colliders to Skeletal animation	Lecture 10: Skeletons	Mount: Animation
10/3 (Th)	12	Skeletal animation		Scanned notes skeletons Additional notes Skeletons Mount: Skin
10/8 (Tu W7)	13	Navmeshes	Lecture 11: Navmeshes	Mount: Navmesh
10/10 (Th)	14
10/15 (Tu W8)	15	Navmeshes	Lecture 12: Beyond Navmeshes	Mount: Navmesh
10/17 (Th)	15	Motion planning plus A*	Lecture 13: A*	Mount A*
10/22 (Tu W9)	15	Midterm review plus configuration space	Lecture 14: Configuration Space	Midterm 1 study notes Mount notes: configuration Mount notes: path finding
10/24(Th)	16	Midterm 1
10/29 (T W10)	17	Fractals	Fractals	Mount L-systems
10/31 (Th)	18	Fractals II	Fractals continued	Mount Fractals Mount Flocking
11/5 (M W11)	19	Modeling and rendering	Modeling and rendering	Mount Mesh Modeling
11/7 (Th)	20	Curves	Modeling and curves	No Mount file
11/12 (Tu W12)	21	Curves	Modeling and curves	No Mount file
11/14 (Th)	22	Perlin Noise I	Perlin noise and exam problems	Mount Perlin noise
11/19 (Tu W13)	23	AI and Procedural methods
11/21 (Th)	24	Midterm 2
11/26 (Tu W14)	25	Finishing Perlin noise and crowd motion	Perlin II plus crowds	Mount crowd motion
11/28 (Th)	26	Thanksgiving!
12/3 (Tu W15)	27	Networks and cheating	Multiplayer cheating	Mount Cheating
12/5 (W)	28	Final Day: Networks and more
12/16 (Tu W16)	21	Final Exam @ @ 1:30-3:30 PM

To help reinforce lecture material, in-class exercises will be given from time to time, without announcement. Working in small groups is permitted. They will account for at most 5% of the final course grade.

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