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Graphics for Beginners (Using SDL)

Posted by timothy on from the how-things-should-be dept.

Jari Komppa writes "Looking at how learning programming these days is much harder than when I was starting, I decided to write a tutorial on how to make graphics at pixel level. The aim for the tutorial is to show that programming can actually be fun."

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  1. SDL is overrated by Junks+Jerzey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    SDL has a couple of things going in its favor:

    1. It works.
    2. It's cross-platform.
    3. It's not trying to do too much.

    That said, SDL isn't particularly well-designed otherwise. It's awkward. There's too much underlying info exposed to the user. The "surface" abstraction is muddy, in that you can accidentally run without hardware acceleration too easily, and you do easily do other things that hurt performance simply because you didn't pay attention to barely documented flags.