This is just incredible! I have spent the last 12 hours doing his tutorial, have gotten to Lesson 6. If I had known that GL was this simple, I would have started working with it years ago when I first started programming! I''m a linux dev for the most part, so i''ve never really written for the Windows API, but regardless it''s just so damn easy! The base code he wrote is so appendable, it covers almost everything you''d need to do! Nehe, you sure you didn''t go to school or something to become the OpenGL guru you are today? How long have you been working with it? All I have to say is damn! best $25.00 I could have ever spent!

Hey SigSeg,

I''m glad you enjoy the disc, appreciate the plug. Wish more people were interested in the purchase (perhaps everyone has a disc?).

As for going to school... I actually majored in Industrial Electronics and gas powered lasers, which also involved robotics, fiber optics and computers. Fun stuff. Since then I''ve taken a ton of networking courses, along with database courses. Oddly enough I''ve never taken a programming course, which may show {grin}.

If you''ve enjoyed the tuts up to lesson 6, I''m sure you will have alot of fun with the later tuts

I like lasers too. I used to have a laser pointer, and I use a laser bar-code reader at work to scan UPCs and here at home I use a Microsoft laser mouse. none of them are gas powered though. Let me guess though, that''s where you got the Neon Helium logo from though?

As for your disc sales, I was going to buy 2 copies origionally because I was trying to sell someone on OpenGL instead of 2D for this online role playing game being developed at sourceforge.net. Unfortunately he was stuck on avatars. I don''t know why, they''re soooo 5 years ago. After a month of waiting to begin coding on the project, i decided rather than wait, i''d rather code... and ordered the GL tutorial and left the sourceforge project.

I''ve actually written tons of networking utilities and tools, i never went to college, like you.. i am completely self taught, of course i had on-the-job training also, for a year & a half I worked developing e-commerce software and web scripts for a small company in bend, oregon. I also aided in adminstrating a network of some 50+ computers. I wrote my first game when I was 15 years old in QBasic, a keno game that would randomly throw numbers at the screen, it would print out the "lottery ticket" on my good old dot matrix printer before hand. if you won, it''d print out a page saying your a winner. It was on a 286 way obsolete even 8 years ago hehe

I think some tyrranic idealist had other intentions for me in life though than computer programming, I graduated high school with a 2.1 GPA so no scholorships, i am a good basketball player 1 on 1 but i suck playing teams because i tend to be excluded.. hard to explain lol, so no sports scholorships. I''m as white as they come, so no minority scholorships. I''m a male, can''t have kids, so no single-mother scholorships. I''m less than 25, i didn''t join the military, i was not emancipated and my parents make too much money, so no government grants. I have poor credit from a car i had about 6 years ago that got reposessed, and a poor GPA as I mentioned, so no student loans. The only reason I got the job i mentioned was because my ex girlfriend worked there and put in a good word for me, the job ended about the time our relationship did. I actually took 4 classes which i got A''s and B''s, but that''s the limit of my college career. I had to pay out of pocket which cost almost $800.

Now I work in a bakery. I fry donuts, bake the morning breads, bagels & pastries, etc.. today i mixed and set up tons of french bread, made a batch of potato rolls, made about 2,000 cookies, mopped and went home. I''m pretty satisfied with the job though. There is a future in baking, possibly management. I do pretty decent at it, it pays the bills and I can still have fun with computers in my spare time.

I love this disc, it''s very nice. It''s not only getting me better familiar with the windows api (i''ve always used IDE''s so i''ve never had a reason to become familiar with it) but it''s getting me involved with 3D animation which I had no idea i had an interest in until just a short while ago. I would like to build some little games eventually too, those little projects are so fun.

Anyways, take it easy!
Dustin
SigSeg

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I''m a linux dev for the most part, so i''ve never really written for the Windows API, but regardless it''s just so damn easy! The base code he wrote is so appendable, it covers almost everything you''d need to do!

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Hey, you can stick to Linux if you want to. Useing SDL (http://www.libsdl.org), it''s super-easy to do the window-setup stuff, and if I''m not mistaken, the NeHe tutorials are all converted, very well commentend, and included in the SDK if I''m not mistaken. At least they are with the Delphi/kylix convertion of the SDL headers...

The source is converted, not the tutorials. Because I am not familiar with the X Windows API, and NeHe''s tutorials are written for the Windows API, I think that for the purpose of this tutorial, it''s best I stay with Windows.