Learning OpenGL

I'm learning OpenGL using Go 1.5 and golang.org/x/mobile/gl, these are my notes.

Examples should be mostly-compilable, but sometimes they deviate from the actual Go API into an imaginary variant that is closer to the underlying C API (which most GL libraries are based on). The goal is to understand how OpenGL works on in general, not to learn about quirks of a specific library.

This may be a good primer to go over before diving into a language-specific OpenGL tutorial.

References:

• http://docs.gl/ (fast OpenGL API lookup)
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenGL_Programming
• https://open.gl/ and https://github.com/zuck/opengl-examples
• http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7536956/opengl-es-2-0-shader-best-practices

Reading

• One big fat Markdown file (best for skimming): combined.md

• Separate chapters in Markdown: manuscript/

• MOBI (for Kindles), EPUB, and PDF: https://leanpub.com/learning-opengl

Corrections

See something that is incorrect or confusing? Please open an issue or make a pull request with improvements. Please make the edits in the separate chapters, not the combined file.

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0