Is it a waste of time learning OpenGL for a toy project?

• SFML

  122 9,600 9.5 C++

  Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

  

You could use instead SFML. The alternative is having to learn how to do that using an specific OS.

• GCTP

  1 11 10.0 C

  The General Cartographic Transformation Package (GCTP) is a system of software routines designed to permit the transformation of coordinate pairs from one map projection to another.

Another fun starter project idea is to make an application that displays shapefiles in a map-like display where you can zoom and pan around. You can use a GCTP library to translate lat/lon to various 2D coordinate systems, and you can get world maps in shapefile format from IPUMS.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• raylib

  399 18,791 9.8 C

  A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

Consider also https://www.raylib.com/ Gamedev.tv uses it for their intro to c++ course here https://www.gamedev.tv/p/cpp-fundamentals

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