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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

Aren't you tired of the same old story? Mankind can make a telescope to study the origin of the universe but can't send food or medicine to the poorest countries. They can send up a thousand satellites to create a worldwide telecommunications network but can't clean up the land mines and other hazardous waste after a conflict. Did we get to vote whether to explore the mineral deposits of other planets or whether to create a world where everybody has the same standard of living? If profit is the only measure by which we judge what is good then the human race will look back on this time as one of the most primitive of all. When people committed the most barbaric crimes and amoral acts for little more reason than to get monetary credit which was then used to decorate their lives with costly belongings.

The people who fall for the delusions (traditions) of this time will regret that they did not have the self control to resist because in the later years when their money, fame or looks have failed they will be tortured by their own conscience. The adulation from their peers will have gone and they will have to face who it is they really are without the accessories. It may not sound like too bad a price to pay for a corrupt life if people live for about seventy years, but whether a person believes in an afterlife or not, they run the risk of corrupting the most fundamental part of their being for a temporary high during their mortal life. If, God forbid, we should just die and nothing of our being continues beyond death then they will only be remembered by future generations with contempt, which is reason enough to do what is right rather than that which is the most profitable.

Of course, we are all guilty of some crime or sin so how can there be such a thing as a peaceful afterlife in which we are untroubled by our conscience for past deeds? The answer is in the Bible.