Foundations of 3D Computer Graphics HelloWorld2D

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The purpose of this assignment is to give you experience with programming simple OpenGL applications. You will also get some initial experience with programmable shaders.

The starter code will setup a simple OpenGL 3.0 program that uses GLSL. It demonstrates the basic programming pipeline of this API. The application draws a single texture mapped square in 2D. There are no 3D concepts involved.

Included with this code:

1. Helpful functions to support openGL
2. Functions to deal with images in the "ppm" format.

Main differences from the book's code:

1. C++ Structs are used to maintain shaders data and textures.
2. C++ smart pointers are used to do automatic memory deallocation
3. This code performs proper resource management such as deallocating shaders, buffer objects, and textures appropriately, and gracefully handles runtime errors.