> Taken to the extreme, that statement is the same as saying 'If your students aren't ever going to print "Hello World!", why ever use that string? They should

> Taken to the extreme, that statement is the same as saying 'If your students aren't ever going to print "Hello World!", why ever use that string? They should be finding something more relevant to their eventual goal.' That is, as stated, extreme, but you can extrapolate my point from that. I don't think I can extrapolate your point. It all boils down to what the student wants: quick results or to actually learn OpenGL? All I'm saying is that if you want to learn OpenGL, there's little point in spending time on de facto deprecated functionality.