# NeHe OpenGL tutorials

5 Hacker News commenters recommended NeHe OpenGL tutorials and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for learning OpenGL and GPU programming through well-structured, hands-on examples, and many credit it with starting their graphics and game programming.

## Why people recommend it

- Well-structured hands-on coding examples (2 comments): "The tutorials and hands on coding examples made me understand how to program with GPUs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256696)) "one of the best tutorial series about anything in the way they were structured" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013380))
- Started graphics and game programming careers (2 comments): "it was learning the old fixed pipeline OpenGL API from his tutorials that led to me making games" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260477)) "his brilliant OpenGL tutorials back in the 90s" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256509))
- Lessons still valued and kept for years (2 comments): "I probably still have some of the lessons printed out at my parents house somewhere." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256648)) "his brilliant OpenGL tutorials back in the 90s" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256509))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "NeHe OpenGL tutorials", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nehe-opengl-tutorials/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).