Francisco's Tutoring Blog

I felt that this blog maybe of interest of students working in C++ and OpenGL.

If you can’t find the gl.h and glu.h , install the Windows SDK. For example, for Windows 7 you can install Windows 7 SDK (7.1) This will create a directory in Program Files\Microsoft Windows SDK\7.1 where you can find the files include the OpenGL32.dll. (The directory may look different. Mine is: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1)

I would like to talk about the instructions of installing FreeGLUT in a Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2012. The instructions are similar for older Visual Studio. Windows 8 will...

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." -- Nelson Mandela

This is one of my favorites quotes. The reason is that I believe that education can change (and it has change) our world!

When someone decides to get into Computer Programming, whether if is to get a degree in Computer Science or Computer Eng., or just to learn how to program for a possible career or compliment another major (e.g., Physics), it is important to look into Object Oriented Programming.

We know that there are different styles of programming. The most common ones are Structural Programming (e.g., C, Fortran), Object Oriented Programming (e.g., Java, C++) and Functional Languages (e.g., ML, Lisp), with some languages able to combine some of this features. We also have to think about statically typed...