To get the most out of this book

To get the most out of this book, some experience with C++ is expected. You don’t have to be a hardened C++ master, but you should be able to debug simple C++ problems. Having some experience with OpenGL is a plus, but not required. No advanced C++ features are used. The provided code compiles against C++ 11 or the most recent version.

The code in this book is written against OpenGL 3.3 Core. The OpenGL code presented in this book is forward compatible; the highest compatible version of OpenGL at the time of publishing is 4.6. In Chapter 6, Building an Abstract Renderer, you will implement a thin abstraction layer on top of OpenGL. Throughout the rest of the book, you will be coding against this abstraction layer, rather than OpenGL directly.

The code presented should compile and run on just about any laptop running Windows 10 or a more recent version. The only hardware requirement to follow along with this book is access to a computer that can run Visual Studio 2019 or a more recent version.

The minimum hardware requirements for Visual Studio 2019 are:

• Windows 10, version 1703 or higher
• 1.8 Ghz or a faster processor
• 2GB of RAM

These requirements can be found online at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/system-requirements

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