--------------- EXPECTED PROGRESS ---------------
Finish crash course through graphics programming.

---------------  ACTUAL PROGRESS  ---------------
Read up on how graphics actually work, e.g. view, model, and projection matrices.  Covered translations, rotations, scaling.  Quickly went over lighting and color.  As of Sunday 4/20, am in the middle of looking at particle systems.
		
---------------       SNAGS       ---------------
None really.  Except that I studied the graphics stuff for OpenGL, and was not so pleasantly surprised that DirectGraphics takes charge of a lot of the details, which means significant time investment learning the API.  Thankfully, most of the particle code I expect to derive from the examples from our gaming text.

---------------       PLANS       ---------------
Start making the particle system and particle system editor.