Creating a Doom-style 3D engine in C

Why HN readers recommended it

A favorite on Ask HN lists of programming YouTube channels, praised for mind-blowing systems and graphics programming and a watchable coding style.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Bisqwit

Topic

software 3d rendering

Format

tutorial

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2019

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This is why I love bisqwit's videos on YouTube. He takes a middle ground between "typing it in" and pondered narration. The typing effect is sped up and faked and done at just the right speed to 'follow along' with his thought process. Example: [VIDEO]

• [LINK] is by far my favorite and I've spent many hours watching him. He does things like create a Doom-style engine from scratch: [VIDEO] .. create a NES emulator: [LINK] .. work back from a C++17 example to show why new C++ standards are needed: …

• Bisqwit's video focusing on systems and graphics programming are total gems. [LINK] Not particularly useful for web developers which is what most programmers are nowdays, they will still blow your mind though. [VIDEO]