http://www.opengl.org/

- this website gives a pretty good list of OpenGL references; it has its own manuals and gives books (probably a better source than my list of text books)

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sakella/graphics/

- this is the RPI course website for computer graphics this semester

- the professor has listed links under “useful links” for obtaining opengl and glut code and there’s even installation instructions I believe

Online References

OpenGL tutorials

- a bit outdated, but it illustrates some good techniques which you may want to use in a game

- http://nehe.gamedev.net

The Red Book

- general intro to OpenGL reference

- This is an online (free) version of the book

- http://fly.srk.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook

OpenGL reference

- give a good understanding of OpenGL functions

- www.rush3d.com/reference/opengl-bluebook-1.0

Non-Online References

- NOTE: some of these books can be bought at the RPI bookstore, others can easily be found on amazon.com or elsewhere. If you’re a programmer looking to go into the game industry or doing graphics programming, I highly recommend buying any one of these texts. They’re great references.

Game Programming Gems (Game Programming Gems Series books 1 – 4) by Mark DeLoura

- these books are really great at demonstrating and explaining lots of techniques used in lots of games

- written extremely well and easy to follow

- lots of game companies have these books for their programmers

Computer Graphics with OpenGL (3^rd Edition) by Donald Hearn M. Pauline Baker

- I believe this is the book being used for this semesters graphics programming class

- I’m pretty sure this can be found in the RPI bookstore

Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach using OpenGL (4th Edition) by Edward Angel

- way back when I took an OpenGL course, this was the text book we used

- it’s used for explaining the “behind the scenes” of OpenGL and the math that goes into OpenGL functions