Re: Newbie Programming Language Question

"Rick Jenkins" <rjenkins@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> After reading several books on fractals, I want to write programs to display
> fractal images and landscapes on my computer. I could use a canned fractal
> program, but I want to learn to do the graphics myself. I'm not much of a
> programmer - I wrote my masters thesis in Turbo Pascal a decade ago - hence
> the newbie questions.
If you have used Turbo Pascal maybe FreePascal whith it's OpenGL
bindings it something you'd like to check.
http://www.freepascal.org

However it would be a good thing beeing able to read C also, because
the books I know deal with progamming OpenGL with C.


I'd argue to use glut with OpenGL might be a good idea. However there
exists a lot of language bindings to diverse languages for OpenGL.

You may like to check the following pages also:
http://nehe.gamedev.net/

Especially the OpenGL tutorials provide a lot of informations, and
you'll find there software in all kind of languages written fo the
same task.

Regards
Friedrich





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