Reminds me a lot of when I was 13 and had learned Visual Basic 6 and wanted to make a game so my mother bought me a book on how to make games. “How to make game

Reminds me a lot of when I was 13 and had learned Visual Basic 6 and wanted to make a game so my mother bought me a book on how to make games. “How to make games” she said excitedly as she handed me the book. “How to Make Games” it indeed did say. It also said under it “in C++ and OpenGL”. I had no idea what I was doing or what was going on. Enter high school. An elective called “Computer concepts and programming” was the only computer class outside of “Keyboarding”. It was taught by a female teacher who used to write punch cards for a living. She introduced us to C. All of the sudden, that book from a few years ago clicked in my brain and next thing I knew, I was writing games in C++. They were crap. Horrible performance. But I made them from scratch. Fast forward another decade and then a lot of these Packt publishing style books on making games and learning coding - except for the holy grail of book series - GPU Gems… if you ever want to feel stupid, go read some GPU Gems articles. Today there’s a lot of choices - PBR - Vulkan - anything Eric Lengyel. I still feel like it’s a trap. All these “Teach yourself…” should really be titled “Become obsessed with…”