OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.3, Eighth Edition

What You Should Know Before Reading This Guide

This guide assumes only that you know how to program in the C language (we do use a little bit of C++, but nothing you won’t be able to figure out easily) and that you have some background in mathematics (geometry, trigonometry, linear algebra, calculus, and differential geometry). Even if you have little or no experience with computer graphics technology, you should be able to follow most of the discussions in this book. Of course, computer graphics is an ever-expanding subject, so you may want to enrich your learning experience with supplemental reading:

• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Third Edition, by John F. Hughes et al. (Addison-Wesley, forthcoming 2013)—This book is an encyclopedic ...