Please read the remarks about programming problems for this course.

If you have not done so already, install Visual Studio 2013 (VS) and ensure that it is updated to Update 4. You can obtain VS from the School of Computing's Dreamspark Premium account.

Install the Cinder framework from http://libcinder.org/releases/cinder_0.8.6_vc2013.zip. It is a zip file that you can unzip anywhere. Look over the example code in the cinder_0.8.6_vc2013\samples directory. Examine closely the CairoBasic code. The proposed standard 2D graphics library to be added to a future C++ standard will be based on the cross-platform cairo library. You can find more information about cairo at http://cairographics.org/.