Sample Learning programs :

I'll post the common refrain:
Don't learn from Source Code

[smile]

But anyway, you know of http://nehe.gamedev.net yes?

-me

Ya I know. I thought it would help people and me to learn opengl better.

I get that pure source code reading is bad, because most of the time it seems mysterious. But I wasn't implying that there should be no context. I mean
if you comment on the particular line then sooner or later, people will realize that a there is a certain pattern when loading texture, creating terrains, or
optimizing. So the more they see that, the more chance it will click.
I definitely realize that reading code is very bad way of learning for beginners. But if you are past the beginning stage and could comprehend some of the code that some people write (with comments) then he should be fine?

After all don't you include comments in your code, and comments, technically is
context, right?

If anyone does not want to post a sample code, then that is fine, if
you are kind enough to post you code that looks user friendly (has comment/context), then that is great! It will help a lot of aspiring Game programmers, or Opengl users. I know it will definitely benefit me.

And yes I know about Nehe. Its pretty good, but I believe it can be improved.

also on this, nehe is good, but often times most people who use openGL want nothing to do with windows API. Also nehe very rarely makes examples what would represent how things are done in a game engine. Learning openGL and using it for a game engine are very separate tasks. Both have unique questions and problems. At least that is from my very limited standpoint. I'm still very much an openGL noob.

Thanks, I know but, this does not have to be for a gaming purposes. First it should be for learning purpose.

And at first Nehe is intimidating for beginners, because of the API, but I'll just ignore that for now.

That's why they have written The Red Book and it has sample code and it uses GLUT to hide all the OS specific stuff. There are other lib that do the same thing like freeGLUT, SDL, FTGL and a bunch of others.

There is this as well
http://www.opengl.org/code/