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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by adrianratnapala on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:39PM (#13926024)
Well at least I understand what your three lines of code do. Though not why you want them.

I don't however understand what "three.js" is or what "JS Magic Leap" or... well let's just say I couldn't understand what any of those thing you say are SOOO AMAZING.

Of course they might be amazing, I wouldn't know. But it has the smell of breathless chearleading.

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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by kakarot on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:44PM (#13926550)
three.js is a quite robust WebGL framework. I'll let JS Magic Leap be your homework.

Sometimes libraries and frameworks make our lives easier. I'm glad the tools exist. I had much more fun writing all the little systems that go into a working WebGL app, and working with WebGL API directly, than using any of the popular libraries. But good luck teaching any meaningful amount of WebGL to a group of students who don't even know what HTML stands for without a library like three.js

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Re:The Biggest Difference Between Coding Today and When I St... by ngokevin on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:53PM (#13926613)
See https://aframe.io
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