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Getting Serious with JavaScript
Matthew Amato and Kevin Ring
4.1 Introduction
As we will see in Chapter 7, “Teaching an Introductory Computer Graphics Course with
WebGL,” the nature of JavaScript and WebGL makes it an excellent learning platform for
computer graphics. Others have argued that the general accessibility and quality of the
toolchain also make it great for graphics research [Cozzi 14]. In this chapter, we discuss
what we feel is the most important use for JavaScript and WebGL: writing and maintain-
ing real-world browser-based applications and libraries.
Most of our knowledge of JavaScript and WebGL comes from our experiences in help ...