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    Here are just a few sample programs, that you can check out to learn how to perform certain tasks.  Feel free to download them and use them.  All of the code for the following programs has been written by the members of our group.   Feel free to take these programs and expand them, add your own code, but please give the authors at least some credit if you modify the following programs.

A Simple Program  -  A simple program demonstrating a few very useful functions.

Screen Saver  -  A screen saver like program demonstrating some simple graphics functions.

Text Edit  -  A simple text editing program.

Asteroids  -  A game based on the original Asteroids game, which demonstrates a lot of useful functions, including the timer, graphics, moving controls, and many more.  Check it out if you're interested in game programming.

Wheel of Fortune  -  A game based on the "Wheel Of Fortune" TV show, which demonstrates the use of file access, redimensioning arrays, loading controls at run time, and of course some graphics functions.

Tic Tac Toe  -  A simple Tic Tac Toe game, which demonstrates some simple AI and some graphics functions.  This game is only one player, there is no two player mode, however adding a two player mode wouldn't be to difficult.

Connect 4  -  A two player game similar to Tic Tac Toe, in which people try to get four in a row.  This game demonstrates how to use loops and branching to process arrays of data.