I'd rather suggest that people learn D3D11 first, if they can, instead of Vulkan. The OpenGL programming model has a lot of backwards ideas that can make graphi

I'd rather suggest that people learn D3D11 first, if they can, instead of Vulkan. The OpenGL programming model has a lot of backwards ideas that can make graphics seem far more complicated than it is. Vulkan removes those and gets closer to the D3D11 style, but it also introduces a lot of more complicated ideas. Learning the whole gamut at once is a challenge. There are other options to get started with graphics. Frameworks you can use to start putting your toes in the water: any game engine, a higher-level graphics framework like raylib or bgfx, or a cross-platform graphics layer like WebGPU/wgpu. I don't want to gatekeep, just being realistic that if you're new to graphics in general, Vulkan might not be the best place to start. You'll get there eventually though.