I checked because I thought you wrote something too, but there''s nothing. There''s a brief mention that we assume people are familiar with C++, but it''s right before discussing something.

Kevin

I''ve been really busy lately, but recently I took the time to sit down and read chapter three. Even though some of the explanations were quite incomprehensible (like, why are normalized vectors so imporant? but then again, i don''t know much), I moved through it and had an ok grasp on just about everything. Then, I got to a page where it mentioned that you should know trigonometry, and I just about screamed in frustration, because I haven''t had trig yet. So, I suppose this is a message from God telling me not to learn OpenGL. Or, at least that would be a convenient excuse for giving up.

In any case, I suppose I''ll just have to let the book gather a little bit of dust on my shelf until I do two things: learn the basics of Windows programming and understand all of its concepts, and learn trig.

PLEASE, if you guys write another book, be sure to include a "What you need to know" or "Authors'' assumptions" page at the beginning.



P.S. Do I need to know linear algebra? If so, I''m worse off than I thought.

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"A promise to a woman is just a lie that hasn''t happened yet."
-Mr. Floppy

I suppose we COULD have had an appendix on trigonometry, but we were trying to make the schedule. In response to the two topics you feel you should know for 3D graphics - don''t worry about Windows, just know the basics; you need to have an idea on trigonometry to do anything seriously useful. That would actually apply to anything geometrical.

Kevin