DATES: Sep 10-14, 2007
LOCATION: Frankfurt, Germany
Kloster Ederbach
EVENT URL: http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/opengl.shtml

Big Nerd Ranch offers intensive, head-down computer programming courses taught by experts in a retreat environment. The quiet atmosphere and beautiful scenery allow you to relax and focus on learning.

This 5-day training on OpenGL will arm you with the knowledge you need to make your 2D and 3D visualizations fly! By taking full advantage of hardware acceleration, shaders, blending, textures and video we'll help you get the most out of your data. Learn how OpenGL works, what functionality it does and does not provide, various optimization methods for both static and dynamic data, and much more.

The course will provide libraries and frameworks for abstracting the operating system and allowing the student to focus solely on learning OpenGL. Concepts and exercises which are tangentially related to OpenGL and depend on interaction with the OS will be taught using Mac OS X technologies (such as multiple rendering contexts or multithreaded OpenGL applications).