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New team announcment and future lessons

darrenecm · 2006-07-13T06:31:32

I just saw the exciting news that a skilled team has been formed and that new lessons may be on the way. Might I make a suggestion? When your team are coding tutorials, would it not be a good idea to steer clear of structuring everything around C++ classes? Classes are best used once you know all about an underlying system and you can *then* begin to encapsulate evrything to hide implementation details. Someone coming along to OpenGL to learn it from scratch will likely have a harder time working through what is happening with basic OpenGL calls if they are wrapped up in classes. Understanding OpenGL and how it works on a more procedural level first will ensure that things remain clear for both those users who only know C as well as C++ experts. Leave it to the end-user to decide how best to encapsulate OpenGL in classes once they know it intimately. Plus everyone has very different approaches on designing and writing classes, so it's best to leave this higher-level structuring out of code that aims to provide clear tutorial information on a lower level API that isn't itself class based. Keep up the great work :)

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Started by darrenecm July 09, 2006 07:36 AM

11 comments, last by lc_overlord 17 years, 12 months ago

DevLiquidKnight

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July 13, 2006 12:38 AM

Unsure of how the site is being made, but I think it will be similiar to that. The language C++ is being used. [smile]

Lucretia

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July 13, 2006 01:17 AM

Quote: Original post by DevLiquidKnight
Unsure of how the site is being made, but I think it will be similiar to that. The language C++ is being used. [smile]

Well, just as long as it's not C# and it is portable.

Luke.

lc_overlord

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July 13, 2006 06:31 AM

It's portable and system independent.

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