Well, my college (not a fancy one mind you) was actually using povray to get people started on opengl circa 2000. Don't know if it was the best method but it wo

Well, my college (not a fancy one mind you) was actually using povray to get people started on opengl circa 2000. Don't know if it was the best method but it worked. As for OpenGL itself, back then the best resource I remember were the NeHe tutorials