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		User23 on Dec 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Computer Graphics from Scratch (2017) Everyone in my age group that started programming did so because they wanted to do computer graphics. Every single one. It's definitely a great hook to inspire learning.

kevinskii on Dec 1, 2020 | [–]

Same here. And yet I spent...21 years programming before I finally got around to learning it.

jacobush on Dec 1, 2020 | [–]

I did a raytracer in BASIC on an 8-bit machine. Took two weeks and a nondescript lump of pixels was the result. But I knew it was a torus.

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