WebGL Compute (Paperback)

Hard to recommend. The examples assume too much and explain too little.

I read this over a couple of weekends alongside a small side project, which turned out to be the ideal way to approach it. The chapters on gpu computing are the strongest — the examples are stripped down but complete, and I could follow along without constant guessing. A couple of chapters felt like they could have been merged, but that is a minor complaint. The early chapters move quickly through material I already knew, but the later sections were genuinely new to me. I would look elsewhere unless you have a specific reason to need this particular title.

I got a lot out of this, even if a few sections felt rushed.

I have been working with gpu computing for a few years now and I still found plenty here that was new to me. The early chapters move quickly through material I already knew, but the later sections were genuinely new to me. The writing is direct and does not waste space on filler, which I value in a technical book. The author clearly knows the subject deeply and has thought hard about how to teach it. Four stars, and I suspect a second edition could easily push it to five.