NeHe OpenGL tutorials
Shares rank 21 of 24 online tutorials by recommenders
Recommended for learning OpenGL and GPU programming through well-structured, hands-on examples, and many credit it with starting their graphics and game programming.
Recommended for learning OpenGL and GPU programming through well-structured, hands-on examples, and many credit it with starting their graphics and game programming.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Well-structured hands-on coding examples
“The tutorials and hands on coding examples made me understand how to program with GPUs.”
Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0” “one of the best tutorial series about anything in the way they were structured”
Comment from 22 Nov 2025 in “How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)” Started graphics and game programming careers
“it was learning the old fixed pipeline OpenGL API from his tutorials that led to me making games”
Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0” “his brilliant OpenGL tutorials back in the 90s”
Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0” Lessons still valued and kept for years
“I probably still have some of the lessons printed out at my parents house somewhere.”
Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0” “his brilliant OpenGL tutorials back in the 90s”
Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0”
Other online tutorials people recommend
The four most recommended other online tutorials, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSS-Tricks | 23 | 3 | 88% | 4 | — | Approved |
| Beej's Guide to Network Programmingby Brian Hall | 16 | 1 | 94% | 7 | 23 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| Learn OpenGL | 15 | 3 | 83% | 3 | — | — |
| Let's Build a Compilerby Jack Crenshaw | 12 | 1 | 92% | 5 | — | Approved |
| NeHe OpenGL tutorialsThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it was learning the old fixed pipeline OpenGL API from his tutorials that led to me making games”
“The tutorials and hands on coding examples made me understand how to program with GPUs.”
“I probably still have some of the lessons printed out at my parents house somewhere.”
“his brilliant OpenGL tutorials back in the 90s”
“one of the best tutorial series about anything in the way they were structured”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.