Hello, World

Whenever I sit down with a new graphics system, I write what I believe to be the “Hello, World” of graphics programs: a simple cube spinning around the origin of a world-space coordinate system.

1995, Jonathan Blossom, “Spinning a Cube”, in Engines of Creation, Corte Madera, Calif.: Waite Group Press, →ISBN, page 103

Chapter 4, “Building a Simple Plug-In,” presents the “Hello, World” of plug-ins—loaded with instrumentation to make the calls from Navigator visible.

1997, Michael Morgan, Netscape™ Plug-Ins Developer’s Kit, Indianapolis, Ind.: Que Corporation, →ISBN, page 100

The “Hello, World” of the communications field is to send an AT command to a modem and get back a response, so we will take care of this formality first.

2000, Mark Hammond, Andy Robinson, Python Programming on Win32 (Help for Windows Programmers), Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 373

The CGI script in Example 9-1 is sort of the “Hello, World” of dynamic web programming. It lets the user enter text in an HTML form, submit the form, and see the resultant text in the server’s response.

2003, Dave Rolsky, Ken Williams, Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason (Component-Based Templating System), Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 172

To give you a quick glimpse of how the API is used, without yet explaining things in detail, let us introduce the “Hello, World” of M3G. This piece of code, shown below, is possibly the shortest fully functional M3G animation player you can write. The midlet first loads a complete scene from a .m3g file, and then proceeds to animate and render it at the maximum frame rate until the user presses a key.

2008, Kari Pulli, Tomi Aarnio, Ville Miettinen, Kimmo Roimela, Jani Vaarala, Mobile 3D Graphics with OpenGL ES and M3G, Burlington, Mass.: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, →ISBN, page 276