Hi folks. I’ve written some introductory openFrameworks and C++ learning materials for a creative-coding college course. Newcomers to C++ and/or oF may find these useful.
The students in this course will be using oF with Visual Studio 2019 on Windows, but most of the notes apply to all environments.
This is a work in progress. I’d appreciate any feedback you might have. Pull requests for fixes are welcome. 
openFramework Basics - Introductory Tutorial
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:
- Install openFrameworks for use with Visual Studio 2019.
- Create new oF projects using the Project Generator.
- Describe the purpose of the setup, update, and draw methods.
- Resize the drawing canvas and query for the canvas height/width.
- Draw 2D shapes to the canvas in a variety of colours.
- Change how the background is cleared before each frame.
- Translate, rotate, scale, save, and restore the coordinate system.
- Display images to the canvas.
- Respond to keyboard and mouse events.
- Display text to the debugging console and to the canvas.
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:
- Describe the three-part C++ build process.
- Use comments in your C++ code.
- Store data in variables and constants.
- Define and use reference variables.
- Understand the purpose for, and limits of, the primitive data types.
- Output variables to the console.
- Fetch user input from the keyboard.
- Perform math operations on numbers and numeric variables.
- Code various conditional and looping structures.
- Define and use your own functions.
- Use header files to forward declare functions.
- Understand C++ scoping rules.
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