Ray Tracing in One Weekend

The Maze book is really good. Definitely recommend. One thing that I've found helpful often when learning a new language is taking some code written in a language I know already and porting it over into the new language. That's more fun with a project that actually does something interesting, and if you've got the original-language version running, you can compare output. Peter Shirley's Ray Tracing in One Weekend book (and sequels) are also fun little projects https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht... (https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html)

Was going to mention this myself. Can recommend this book, it's great fun and you can indeed get through it in a weekend.

Ray Tracing in a Weekend(https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht... (https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.html)) is an incredible guide to work through to write a basic functioning ray tracer.

I just finished the first and I made it through in 2 days without really trying. I went through it a second time, trying to use the example code as less of a crutch and do it myself, while following different topics that came up. It's a great overview of the subject. I /really/ like that each chapter is fairly short, you have a working example at the end of each one, he explains both the concept and why he approaches a certain way in code. I should also mention, learning raytracing won't directly help if you're trying to learn realtime computer graphics.

Ray Tracing in One Weekend Ray Tracing: The Next Week Ray Tracing: The Rest of Your Life http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/