When it comes to OpenGL, Lets not forget about nehe's website. http://nehe.gamedev.net/ you can find plenty of tutorials there too.(Lesson 06 to 10 is what you really after) Once you get the OpenGL up and running, rendering a 2D image is as simple as creating a quad with position vertices and texture coordinates, and binding the texture that you want to render. I must point out most of these tutorials are old. However, its a great start up for anyone who's new at it.

I started on graphics with nehe. It is old, but the nature of the pipeline has not changed overmuch since then, so you can easily move from there to newer API's and pick up new concepts.

Hmm... Maybe we should think about porting Nehe's tuts to a more recent API? Is he still around?

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lol, yeah, I'll email him and talk about it. Maybe GD can collab something.

Actually, I start classes on Monday, so I think I'll let it be for now.