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GAME 2344   DirectX Programming (3)
This is a WECM Course Number.
Prerequisite: GAME 2342 or instructor approval.
Exploration of the advances suite of multimedia application programming interfaces (API) built into the Microsoft Windows operating system. Includes fundamentals of DirectX's API that give multimedia applications access to advanced features of high-performance hardware such as 3-D graphics acceleration clips and sound cards. Addresses control of low-level functions including 2-D graphics acceleration; support for input devices such as joysticks, keyboards, and mice; and control of sound mixing and sound output. (2 Lec., 4 Lab.)

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Designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for transfer among community colleges and state public four year colleges and universities as freshman and sophomore general education courses.

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Designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board as workforce education (technical) courses offered for credit and CEUs (Continuing Education Units). While these courses are designed to transfer among state community colleges, they are not designed to automatically transfer to public four year colleges and universities.