The book is well organized and follows a logical order, I originally ran examples from chapters 1-3 in VC++ 6, now I'm using VC++ 9 Express Edition without any problems. The authors explain their topics in a concise method, allowing for a solid expansion of basic ideas into the more complex concepts. It would have been nice to have a copy of the book in electronic form, with more meat in the "On Your Own" sections at the end of the chapters. By no means does this wish detract from the fact the book presents a solid starting point for openGL.

Very very helpful..
You end up familiar with every basic aspect of OpenGL.
I totally recommend it..

This book is a good introductory book, but it should have probably been called "Beginning OpenGL". The Gaming part is mentioned only briefly, and for any detail you'll have to go to what's on the CD. The CD literally makes this a decent book to buy; without the CD the OpenGL Red Book is probably money better spent. The other fault of this book is that the images are sub-par; it looks like the authors themselves did the images instead of a professional graphics house.

If you need to get 3D graphics into your application OpenGL is a wonderful alternative. If you want to get up to speed with OpenGL this book is one of the best alternatives.
It's good to know a little about 3D math, and have a familiarity with terms like unit vector, transformation, and dot product, but it's definitely not necessary.

I'd recommend this to anyone.

If you are interested in cross-platform OpenGL programming then DO NOT buy this book, it is M$ Windows Dependant. The title should have been "Beginning OpenGL Windows Game Programming".