Posted by gouessej on Dec 23, 2011; 10:37am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/follow-up-course-on-JOGL-tp3608394p3608542.html

Maybe you should add a section to explain how to install JOGL on Linux and Mac OS X too, keep in mind that it might evolve a bit with JOGL 2.0 RC6.

Please remove obsolete references for the Java documentation of the API, this one is... old:
http://download.java.net/media/jogl/jogl-2.x-docs/

Why not speaking about NEWT too?

Please advise the use of a more recent version of Java.

You don't need anymore to set the Java Library Path, just add jogl.all.jar and gluegen-rt.jar to the classpath, put the JARs containing the native libraries into the same directory and that's all. If you want, I can provide you a template project to ease that task in Eclipse.

Maybe using GLProfile.getDefault() is not a good idea for pedagogical reasons. Why not using GLProfile.getMaxFixedFunc() or GLProfile.getMaxProgrammable()? It would be the occasion to explain what is a backward compatible profile and what is a forward compatible profile.

Don't forget to speak about the gimbal lock below the example that performs 3 calls to glRotate.

Don't call glFlush().

Maybe speak about vertex arrays and VBOs or I assume it is done in another course.