3D Game Programming

CHAPTER 1

Project: Creating Simple Shapes

There will be plenty of time for detailed explanations later in this book. For

now, let’s get started with programming!

1.1 Programming with the ICE Code Editor

In this book, we’ll use the ICE Code Editor to do our programming. The ICE

Code Editor runs right inside a browser. It lets us type in our programming

code and see the results immediately.

To get started, open the ICE Code Editor at http://gamingJS.com/ice using Google’s

Chrome web browser. It should look something like this:

When you’re done with this chapter, you will

• Know what a code editor is and how to use
  it to program


• Know how to make various 3D shapes


• Be able to program simple JavaScript


• Understand how to make 3D shapes move

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