For now, this is my estimation of the topics we will cover. This page will be updated as the semester progresses.

Notes

• Introdution to the Unreal Engine
  • Unreal Overview
  • The Unreal Learning Center
  • The Unreal Editor
• Basic programming with Blueprints.
  • Starting with Blueprints
  • Some Blueprint Improvements
  • Bouncing Text and Changing Colors
  • Moving About
• The Line Trace
• User Interfaces
  • A GUI Element
• A Spawner
  • Some Screenshots from last class.
  • Event Dispatcher Overview.
  • State Machine Overview.
  • We will need some BSP in the next tutorial
• Basic AI in Unreal.
  • Preview of the AI Tutorial
• Some Raytracing Notes (For the test class on 3/19)
• Git
  • Emergency Start.
  • More details
• Programming IN C++

Official Course Outline

I.	Introduction
	A.	Standard Tools
		1.	Source Code Control Systems
		2.	Executable Building Systems
		3.	Linking With Multiple Libraries
	B.	Object-Oriented Techniques
	C.	Overview of Game Design

II.	Graphical User Interfaces(GUI)  and Event Driven Programming
	A.	Introduction to Events
	B.	Event Driven Main Loop
	C.	GUI techniques

III.	Static 3D Objects
	A.	Wire Mesh Objects
	B.	Texture

IV.	Scene Graphs
	A.	Hierarchical Scene Representation
	B.	Building a Scene Graph
	C.	Updating a Scene Graph
	D.	Rendering a Scene Graph

V.	Dynamic 3D Objects
	A.	Physical Simulation
	B.	Collision Detection
	C.	Character Animation

VI.	Sound
	A.	Audio Format
	B.	Audio Techniques

VII.	Advance User Interaction
	A.	Input Devices
	B.	Picking

VIII.	Overall Game Architecture
	A.	Actors
	B.	Messaging
	C.	Integration

IX.	Networking and Online games.