Slides (Available to follow along during class)

• [Slides]

Commented Code Samples (if any)

In-Class Activity or Lab (Enabled toward the end of lecture -- due 1 week from release)

• In-Class Activity link
  • (This is graded, and only your first response is graded)
  • This is an evaluation of what was learned in lecture.
• (lab) Do a "git pull" from the monorepo

Additional Resources

• Building a Data-Oriented Entity System
  • ((part 1) (Autodesk Stingray engine blog -- There are four parts, and some of the other 2015 posts are about data driven architecture. ))
• Applying the principles of structured design to object-oriented programming.
  • (Another article with general OOP advice like minimizing levels of inheritance)
• CppCon 2015: Vittorio Romeo Implementation of a component-based entity system in modern C++
  • (Tutorial Video)
• Introduction to Entity Systems
  • (Nice Summary of Entity Systems)
• Randy Gaul on Component Based Design(Is it good or bad?)
  • (Link on implementation--link may be dead, try webarhive)
• Randy Gual on sane usage of components and entity systems
  • (Discussion on ECS)
• The next step in Entity Component Systems
  • (Another discussion with some nice visuals of component system)
• XXI SINFO - Jason Gregory - Dogged Determination
  • (Talk by Jason Gregory -- around the 34:01 minute mark gives some nice technical overviews of fragmentation, architecture, and tools used at Naughty Dog)