--- product_id: 2709431 title: "OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 4.3" price: "£47.08" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/2709431-opengl-programming-guide-the-official-guide-to-learning-opengl-versions store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 4.3 **Price:** £47.08 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 4.3 - **How much does it cost?** £47.08 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/2709431-opengl-programming-guide-the-official-guide-to-learning-opengl-versions) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Includes Complete Coverage of the OpenGL® Shading Language! Today’s OpenGL software interface enables programmers to produce extraordinarily high-quality computer-generated images and interactive applications using 2D and 3D objects, color images, and programmable shaders. OpenGL® Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL®, Version 4.3, Eighth Edition, has been almost completely rewritten and provides definitive, comprehensive information on OpenGL and the OpenGL Shading Language. This edition of the best-selling “Red Book” describes the features through OpenGL version 4.3. It also includes updated information and techniques formerly covered in OpenGL® Shading Language (the “Orange Book”). For the first time, this guide completely integrates shader techniques, alongside classic, functioncentric techniques. Extensive new text and code are presented, demonstrating the latest in OpenGL programming techniques. OpenGL® Programming Guide, Eighth Edition, provides clear explanations of OpenGL functionality and techniques, including processing geometric objects with vertex, tessellation, and geometry shaders using geometric transformations and viewing matrices; working with pixels and texture maps through fragment shaders; and advanced data techniques using framebuffer objects and compute shaders. New OpenGL features covered in this edition include Best practices and sample code for taking full advantage of shaders and the entire shading pipeline (including geometry and tessellation shaders) Integration of general computation into the rendering pipeline via compute shaders Techniques for binding multiple shader programs at once during application execution Latest GLSL features for doing advanced shading techniques Additional new techniques for optimizing graphics program performance Review: Kindle edition is nicely formatted - tl;dr: Kindle Edition is perfectly readable and code samples are nicely formatted. I purchased the Kindle Edition of this book and browsed through it on a Kindle Paperwhite. This review is about the formatting only, not the book's contents. The diagrams and tables are very easy to read. They are displayed as images, so the text and lines are a little soft. A few of the renderings don't display well on a small grayscale e-ink screen (figure 6.13, for example), but this is fairly minor and I think the text provides enough explanation. Code samples are included as text, and fit just fine in widescreen mode. In portrait mode the lines wrap, but the code is still readable. Links to images of the code are also included before each samples, which is a great fall-back. There are a significant number of links in the text to other sections of the book. This is nice for reference, but it can make it harder to read if you like to "tap" through pages rather than "slide", since you have to make sure to avoid the links. If you're still unsure about purchasing the Kindle Edition, remember that desertcart has a 7-day return policy on ebooks. You can buy the book and browse through it before deciding whether to keep it. Review: the holly bible for openGL - This book is a MUST-HAVE for every openGL programmer. Not less than a "bible" for openGL related. I own previous edition (7th edition) & the thing I like most about this edition is the fact it was rewritten (from scratch) to use modern openGL approach instead of using old legacy deprecated functions. Also, the book has great deal of information regarding the GLSL, which I understood somehow similar to the orange book (don't own this book, yet). The only disadvantage I found was some lack of notes for completeness of example given. I'll give example to better explain what I mean - On Textures chapters, there is a code sample that explains how to bind vertex data & texture coordinates into a VAO & Buffer. Then we're attaching a texture on the QUAD. What is not mentioned, is that without having a fragmenet shader with code line similar to "outColor = texture(tex, texCoord);" the texture would NOT be visible. Now, I was pretty sure that I was doing something wrong somewhere, till i've downloaded the code samples & saw it in there... A small note before/after example regarding "fragement shader" assumed would be appreciated to avoid confusions on reader's side. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,706,915 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #37 in OpenGL Software Programming #1,354 in Introductory & Beginning Programming #3,395 in Computer Programming Languages | | Customer Reviews | 3.9 out of 5 stars 97 Reviews | ## Images ![OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Versions 4.3 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61pKQr5gmFL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kindle edition is nicely formatted *by M***L on April 14, 2013* tl;dr: Kindle Edition is perfectly readable and code samples are nicely formatted. I purchased the Kindle Edition of this book and browsed through it on a Kindle Paperwhite. This review is about the formatting only, not the book's contents. The diagrams and tables are very easy to read. They are displayed as images, so the text and lines are a little soft. A few of the renderings don't display well on a small grayscale e-ink screen (figure 6.13, for example), but this is fairly minor and I think the text provides enough explanation. Code samples are included as text, and fit just fine in widescreen mode. In portrait mode the lines wrap, but the code is still readable. Links to images of the code are also included before each samples, which is a great fall-back. There are a significant number of links in the text to other sections of the book. This is nice for reference, but it can make it harder to read if you like to "tap" through pages rather than "slide", since you have to make sure to avoid the links. If you're still unsure about purchasing the Kindle Edition, remember that Amazon has a 7-day return policy on ebooks. You can buy the book and browse through it before deciding whether to keep it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ the holly bible for openGL *by I***T on June 22, 2013* This book is a MUST-HAVE for every openGL programmer. Not less than a "bible" for openGL related. I own previous edition (7th edition) & the thing I like most about this edition is the fact it was rewritten (from scratch) to use modern openGL approach instead of using old legacy deprecated functions. Also, the book has great deal of information regarding the GLSL, which I understood somehow similar to the orange book (don't own this book, yet). The only disadvantage I found was some lack of notes for completeness of example given. I'll give example to better explain what I mean - On Textures chapters, there is a code sample that explains how to bind vertex data & texture coordinates into a VAO & Buffer. Then we're attaching a texture on the QUAD. What is not mentioned, is that without having a fragmenet shader with code line similar to "outColor = texture(tex, texCoord);" the texture would NOT be visible. Now, I was pretty sure that I was doing something wrong somewhere, till i've downloaded the code samples & saw it in there... A small note before/after example regarding "fragement shader" assumed would be appreciated to avoid confusions on reader's side. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Better then previous version *by J***Y on April 18, 2013* Alright. So I bought this book (actually I preordered it somewhere about 10th of january LAST YEAR (2012) ) and it finally got to me. First hopes were - please let it be different than previous version (where it was difficult to build program without deprecated functionality). I started reading it and was pretty happy that it did not suffer from this. After reading first 6 chapters, chapter 9 and chapter 10 I have to say - OK, everything is organized and the book indeed IS REFERENCE GUIDE and not tutorial. But that is still alright, because every chapter starts with basic things and explains them simply. Than it starts to get complicated, as the more advanced features are discussed. When I was reading the chapters sequentially, I alwais had a problem with understanding the end of chapter. But after reading another chapter (and slowly getting to referenced parts - some topics jump between chapters - some does jump a lot), it became a little clearer to me. Overall this book explained in the end most of the topics I needed (with very little gaps!) and I was able to build advanced example program (assignment outside of this book) by combining the techniques I read from this book. Ok now for the negatives - I am disapointed, that the webpage still does not have any sourcecode on the webpage. They promised on the site, that they will fix this in a metter of days. The webpage (according to returned headers) did not change in anyway for almost month now. Another problem I discovered are the helper libraries (3rd party) which they mentioned for operating with matrices and vectors on the client (CPU, aplication). I found just 1 library with that name and I wasn`t able to get all the capabilities which they use in the examples. But basicly - this whole library is not a part of opengl and can be substituted (or even ommited) and everything will still work (maybe you would just need to read further book to understand what these libraries does - as it IS thoroughly explained in the book). Also chapter with tesselation is very short and not explained to the details (for example - I had to google out why would anyone use tesselation shaders instead of geometry shaders (which I felt were superset of tesselation shaders) - which were for me far more intuitive) - and I had some troubles understanding how to use them... Overall - I have this book for about 2 weeks and I already covered and understood about 300 pages including some advanced and new staff. But I had an advantage, that I studied this subject before (in school, previous redbook and superbible). Still I can say that this one is the best source on new opengl functionality I ever had my hands on.... --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/2709431-opengl-programming-guide-the-official-guide-to-learning-opengl-versions](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/2709431-opengl-programming-guide-the-official-guide-to-learning-opengl-versions) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-17*