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Anton's OpenGL 4 Tutorials Kindle Edition

by Anton Gerdelan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
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This book is a practical guide to starting 3d programming with OpenGL, using the most recent version. It would suit anyone learning 3d programming that needs a practical guide with some help for common problems. The material is often used in this way by university courses and hobbyists.

This book is a collection of worked-through examples of common real-time rendering techniques as used in video games or student projects. There are also some chapters or short articles for Tips and Tricks - not-so-obvious techniques that can add a lot of value to projects or make it easier to find problems. The idea is to be something like a lab manual - to get you going and over the trickier and more confusing hurdles presented by the API.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00LAMQYF2
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 25, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 17415 KB
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Customers find the tutorial quality excellent and easy to understand. They appreciate the concise and to-the-point images. Readers describe the book as accessible and newbie-friendly. They say it provides remarkable value for money and is a valuable resource for novice graphics programmers.

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Customers find the tutorial quality excellent, easy to understand, and concise. They like the teaching style in the book. Readers say it's accessible and newbie-friendly. They mention the way the author presents information is efficient.

"...Anton's book was by far the most accessible and newbie friendly out of all of them and the only one that I actually finished...." Read more

"...The author has a reasonably interesting writing style and includes lots of helpful tips that he's gathered from years of teaching opengl to students..." Read more

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Customers find the book provides remarkable value for money and is a valuable resource for novice graphics programmers.

"...It was also the cheapest so the value of this book was way higher than any of the others...." Read more

"...This book provides remarkable value for money, costing, in Anton's words, just the price of a double espresso coffee." Read more

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Effective tutorials to learn beginning OpenGL.
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Effective tutorials to learn beginning OpenGL.
Tried to work with other book and tutorials, but kept having problems with their example code not compiling. Tried this, because it had such good reviews. Only about 7% into the book, I've already been able to get good results, my code working. The author makes it fairly easy to work on different platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows). Instead of getting bogged down in an overly abstract and technical approach, these tutorials are very much hands on. I've attached a picture of my first simple program I was able to write using knowledge gained from the book, that draws a Sierpinski triangle, a mathematical oddity.
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Lee W
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent hands on, practical set of tutorials on OpenGL
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2014
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I tried out 3 other OpenGL books before someone in JanusVR suggested I check out Anton's OpenGL 4 Tutorials. Anton's book was by far the most accessible and newbie friendly out of all of them and the only one that I actually finished. It was also the cheapest so the value of this book was way higher than any of the others. At time of writing I know that Anton is actively maintaining his code on GitHub so if you need help or find a problem with the examples you can be sure you'll get some assistance. I had no problem getting the code samples to run on an Ubuntu 14.04 box (I didn't try it on Windows or Mac so I can't comment there), whereas with some of the other books I tried I could not get the code to run because of bugs in their 'helper' libraries. Anton keeps everything pretty minimal so that you can really see what's going on.

Using the book I was able to create of my own OpenGL demos and render models that I've created in Blender. You should know some basic C or C++ before tackling the book.

If you want to learn OpenGL I highly recommend you start here!
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Gabriel Yoder
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent intro to modern OpenGL
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2016
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Excellent introduction for both newbies and old-timers looking to get up to date with modern, shader-based opengl. Unlike some other books I've tried, the material is well organized and paced appropriately. The author has a reasonably interesting writing style and includes lots of helpful tips that he's gathered from years of teaching opengl to students. Some of the later chapters aren't strictly devoted to opemgl, but branch out into related topics that will be useful for those looking to do game programming (such as building models and animation in blender). Some of the more advanced topics included in this book aren't super detailed, however there is plenty of information to serve as a jumping off point and the author frequently recommends other sources for more information on these topics. My biggest complaint about this book is that it's not available in dead tree format.
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Michael Hoskins
5.0 out of 5 stars Effective tutorials to learn beginning OpenGL.
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2017
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Tried to work with other book and tutorials, but kept having problems with their example code not compiling. Tried this, because it had such good reviews. Only about 7% into the book, I've already been able to get good results, my code working. The author makes it fairly easy to work on different platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows). Instead of getting bogged down in an overly abstract and technical approach, these tutorials are very much hands on. I've attached a picture of my first simple program I was able to write using knowledge gained from the book, that draws a Sierpinski triangle, a mathematical oddity.
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Michael Hoskins
5.0 out of 5 stars Effective tutorials to learn beginning OpenGL.
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2017
Tried to work with other book and tutorials, but kept having problems with their example code not compiling. Tried this, because it had such good reviews. Only about 7% into the book, I've already been able to get good results, my code working. The author makes it fairly easy to work on different platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows). Instead of getting bogged down in an overly abstract and technical approach, these tutorials are very much hands on. I've attached a picture of my first simple program I was able to write using knowledge gained from the book, that draws a Sierpinski triangle, a mathematical oddity.
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Chris Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars I highly recommend this book for programmers staring off with modern OpenGL
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2015
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I am only part way through studying this book in detail, but I have scanned it from start to finish. I think it is an absolute gem. I have tried to teach myself OpenGL programming from several other books, and have encountered many frustrations with incomplete code examples and things that just don't seem to work for me. With Anton's tutorials, I am now making progress. I highly recommend this book for programmers staring off with modern OpenGL. The other mighty tomes serve to instruct more fully on the quite large OpenGL API, but to get started, buy Anton's OpenGL Tutorials. This book provides remarkable value for money, costing, in Anton's words, just the price of a double espresso coffee.
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Kim Seong Wan
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book for learning OpenGL
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2020
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This book is very kind for newbies. OpenGL API looks simple to newbies at first glance . But very tricky API because of it's state machine nature and old fashioned C style interface. This book tells almost every obstacles which newbies meet and struggle to overcome. You might think this book contains only entry level topics. No, also contains advanced topics such as Deferred Shading. Simply The BEST book of its kind.
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Jeremiah LaRocco
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book... for the price
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2019
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Considering the price and the content, it's hard to go wrong with this book. It's *much better* than the OpenGL Programming Guide or SuperBible books that cost 5x more. Decent coverage of OpenGL nuts and bolts and basic graphic concepts like vectors, matrix math, etc.

That said, it could be better.

The code examples are just okay. It would be helpful if they were more detailed and flushed out in some places. There are also a few places where the author gives prose descriptions of what code could look like, when it'd be more clear to just give a code listing showing it.

Another annoyance is that the code samples are often disconnected and unrelated to other sample code. It'd be nice to have some larger examples to tie together multiple topics and show how they might work together.

Overall a good intro, but I feel I'll need another book to pull everything together and show how to design a "real world" OpenGL program.
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B. Bryant
5.0 out of 5 stars The examples are great, and he uses concise and to the point ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2015
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As others have said, a really well-written book for beginners in OpenGL. The examples are great, and he uses concise and to the point images to get the information across, something that many other books lack in this field. This book and the source code will definitely get you through the first hurdles of OpenGL and shaders. Out of the 25ish lessons/chapters I've done so far, only one was beyond my comprehension in dealing with Quaternions. Granted that isn't an easy subject to convey to readers, but it does a much better job than other sources I've read. I'm hoping he releases another book on more techniques like spherical harmonics. I'd pay double the price just for that lesson!
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Reuben K
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource to learn modern OpenGL.
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2015
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One of the best resources for programming modern OpenGL (OpenGL 4+). This book requires you to be a good programmer with solid fundamentals in C, C++, 3D math, and graphics. If you are a new programmer, I recommend you get some experience first. If you don't, you will struggle.

Overall, this is a great book for anyone willing to learn and spend time learning modern OpenGL.

Just a heads up, this book is in mostly C with C++ only used for convenience. This makes it very useful for writing my graphics engine in pure C.
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Robbert de Groot
5.0 out of 5 stars This paired with the Red Book goes a long way.
Reviewed in Canada on September 13, 2020
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The Red Book used to be all you needed for getting started with OpenGL programming. However I found working with the 9th edition of the Red Book a bit infuriating as they do not really make certain things clear. Anton's book gives you a better start in my opinion with modern OpenGL. It also covers topics that the old Red Book used to mention but the new one doesn't like selection for instance.

This tutorial book isn't everything. It just glances on rendering transparent objects for instance but it's a starting point. Like the Red Book it uses GLFW. I've been using libSDL2 for my work. There are slight changes needed if you do that but for the most part everything is still pretty much applicable.
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Alberto Teran
5.0 out of 5 stars Bien
Reviewed in Mexico on January 25, 2019
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BARBERINI CRISTIAN
5.0 out of 5 stars Best OpenGL ebook for Beginners
Reviewed in Italy on June 26, 2020
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With this book I finally started to grasp the basic concepts of OpenGL programming. Totally worth.
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Philip
5.0 out of 5 stars Well paced, easy to follow for anyone serious getting in to OpenGL
Reviewed in Australia on January 20, 2020
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Anton's OpenGL 4 tutorials are easy to follow but deep enough to satisfy most beginners and intermediate
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Rolf Eduardo Evaldt Flores
4.0 out of 5 stars This book is well worth it's price
Reviewed in Brazil on April 4, 2015
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This book covers a lot of important modern OpenGL details, it is a cheap alternative for books like OpenGL SuperBible 5 and 6.
If you are low on money and you can't tolerate the awfulness of free online tutorials, then this book is for you.
Be sure to read the free kindle sample before buying, because the sample will tell if you will like the rest of the book.
Of course, the main requirement of this book is that you already know how to program in C or C++, this book is not meant for absolute beginner programmers.

I wish I could vote 5 stars, maybe because I am not good at math and I don't understand math very well, the book Author does not take mercy for math losers like myself, if you suck at math, you will face headaches in some code examples. I just hate math notations :l
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