Background and review of current literature/research in this area

Thus far I have found information and tutorials that will help me create a drawing program. Tutorials include:

http://www.tjhsst.edu/ dhyatt/superap/basic.html

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ Java Tutorial

http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ Gtk+ Tutorial

http://www.dci.clrc.ac.uk/Publications/Cookbook/ Tcl/Tk Cookbook Tutorial

http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction Python/ Tkinter Tutorial