Space Blaster! was a project to help me learn some C++, OpenGL, and all the tasks involved in building/linking various dependencies. It's a pretty basic game, but you have to take the first step in order to take the next step! It was time well spent and I learned quite a bit along the way.
If you want to check it out, just download the zip and dump the contents in to a folder. Run the executable and you should be good to go. Works on my machines, works on friends machines - hope it works on yours.