Which OpenGl version is better to learn?and Any good books?

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For the past few months I have tried game development using cocos2dx and would like to develop my knowledge on the same. So, I have planned to learn OpenGl to try 2D and 3D Game Development in cocos2dx.

But I am confused about where to start. I guess I have to learn OpenGl ES for mobile game development.
Which version of OpenGl ES is good to learn? After searching on this topic I found posts saying that OpenGl ES 2.0 is used in most of phones. So, Is it good to start with version 2.0 or 1.x?

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I would say learn the latest version.

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Definitely start with ES 2.0

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Okay :smile:

Any good books for beginners?

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There are some excellent tutorials online about adding OpenGL ES effects (like shaders) to Cocosd2-x, which is a good place to start if you are already successfully using CC.

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@slackmoehrle @corytrese

https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftombraiderjava.googlecode.com%2Fsvn-history%2Fr391%2Falpha2%2Fdoc%2FOpenGLES20ProgrammingGuide.pdf&ei=nfmhVdiSCM26uATQmoZA&usg=AFQjCNHYbfjVWXpxl9ABPgQtXOrb3ShbmQ&sig2=w8qlEjdXQDVSmVsj02XFGA&bvm=bv.97653015,d.c2E

I’m thinking of to start with this book. What do you think?

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There are a lot of books. The ones I prefer, you might not and vice versa. Choose something that you think you will learn from.

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I liked the book I posted in the above comment. Can you tell if that will be useful for coding in cocos2dx later ?

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Anything you learn from is useful. I am sorry, I can’t really tell you if a book will be useful to you. For me, I prefer other books to learn from than the one you mentioned. My preference. I learn a bit different. I try, each week, to pick an item and just learn that in my spare time.

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I think if you orient to do your own shaders and modify cocos2d yes, but otherwise I will go to learn specifically cocos2d and then grow from there.