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These tutorials focus mainly on OpenGL, Win32 programming and the ODE physics engine. OpenGL has moved on to great heights and I don't cover the newest features but cover all of the basic concepts you will need with working example programs.

Working with the Win32 API is a great way to get to the heart of Windows and is just as relevant today as ever before. Whereas ODE has been marginalized as hardware accelerated physics becomes more common.

Games and graphics utilities can be made quickly and easily using game engines like Unity so this and Linux development in general will be the focus of my next tutorials.

To the Children of the Modern Age and Beyond

By Alan Baylis

From birth the mind continually learns. It develops from a state of complete ignorance. It begins by having to learn how to control a flexible body that incorporates hundreds of muscles and five hitherto unknown senses. It achieves this to a very high standard whereby it can walk, run, leap and then goes on to include speech and very complex language. Through observation and schooling the mind then learns or is taught the higher concepts such as numeracy, literacy, music, science, physics and is then expected to be content pumping gas for a living.

The mind can be taken to new levels of understanding and competence, but only if we continue to practice and learn the new concepts. The mind is continually looking for a more complete understanding of whatever it is doing. By trial and error it will seek the fastest and best way to perform a given task or subject. If a person continually indulges in any subject then their mind will have no choice but to try to perfect its understanding of that subject. So if a person points their attention towards the television then their mind will learn very well, all the actors names, plots, football teams, brand names etc. However, if they point their attention long enough towards any subject they like, but may think is too hard or beyond their comprehension, then, like learning to walk, they will come to understand it.

Knowledge of any new subject will only come about through devotion and most importantly, repetition. In this respect the school systems make the mistake of expecting the students to understand something the first time they hear or read about a new concept. Rather than being rushed to move on to the next subject it is far better that the student re-read the information repeatedly until they themselves believe they understand it.

Always choose to re-read a passage or a page of text indefinitely until any feeling of confusion is replaced with a feeling of boredom, which is the minds way of telling us that the information has been understood to the point of being mundane. Continue this throughout a book and you will come to understand all of the information in the book almost to the level of the authors themselves. If at any point in the book you feel that you have become overly confused or overwhelmed then begin reading it again from the beginning and when you next reach that point you will find that it is less confusing or daunting.

The only drawback is that we can't learn everything. While devoted to math we must concede that we shall not become an expert at metallurgy. That can be left to someone who is devoted to metallurgy but is not learning math. Choose the subject you would most like to know, regardless of whether you presently believe you can know it in-depth, and spend a couple of years doing and learning anything that is related to that subject, taking time out to relax and play when it begins to become stressful. When you have reached a level you are happy with, then choose, and begin to learn a new subject.

Without shared knowledge mankind would not be where it is today. We owe our modern way of life to all that has been learnt by the generations before us. It has become a trend in these hard times to put a price on this knowledge and sell it as a commodity. This deprives the poor from a great amount of knowledge and keeps them ignorant; because the last thing the world powers want is billions of highly knowledgeable people who wont be happy just pumping gas.

Try reading the Bible as seen from our modern point of view and see if creationism isn't a possibility.