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by malexw
5121 days ago
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When I started learning I spent a lot of time reading NeHe tutorials. But modern OpenGL feels so far removed from those tutorials that it feels like learning a completely different API. The best tutorials I've found for modern OpenGL is "Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming" by Jason McKesson. The only problem I have with these tutorials is that there aren't enough! http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/ |
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Edit: I also wanted to point out that in the author's preface, he discusses what he considers the downside to most introductory texts and tutorials in 3D graphics programming - presenting "fixed functionality" that allows newcomers to more quickly use the tools at hand by abstracting much of the foundational information away.
While this is certainly useful for experienced developers learning a new derivative technology on top of what they already know, I have always found this approach for introductory stuff frustrating. At the end of the day I may come away pseudo-understanding a "higher level" concept, but ultimately much has been abstracted away and I am left ignorant and, as the author says, "Programming thus becomes akin to magical rituals: you put certain bits of code before other bits, and everything seems to work."
I wish I knew of more texts like this for other fields where over or premature abstraction could endanger comprehension. (For example, I know I would like to see a similar approach taken to other complex topics, like networking.)