WebGL Graphics API in 20 Minutes (Coffee Break Series)

Outstanding. I kept finding reasons to come back to it.

This is the third book I have read on graphics this year, and it is comfortably the best of them. Some of the diagrams are dense and I had to reread a few sections, though that may just be me. There is a section near the end that ties several earlier ideas together in a way I had not seen before. This is the book I wish had existed when I started working with graphics.

It does the job, though it took some patience to get through.

I had been on the fence about this one for a while, and I should have bought it sooner. The chapters on graphics are the strongest — the examples are stripped down but complete, and I could follow along without constant guessing. The early chapters move quickly through material I already knew, but the later sections were genuinely new to me. Fine, but there are stronger books on the same subject if you look around.

Strong content, uneven pacing. I would still recommend it.

I was looking for something that would bridge the gap between tutorials and proper reference material, and this does that well. The chapters on graphics are the strongest — the examples are stripped down but complete, and I could follow along without constant guessing. The author avoids over-explaining, which keeps the pace up but means you need to pay attention. Good value for the price and worth the time it takes to work through properly.