QuickStart Guide to Vulkan Compute

Genuinely excellent — I finished it in a week and immediately started again.

A colleague recommended this and I can see why. It does something that few technical books manage: it respects the reader's time. The code samples assume a particular environment, which took a bit of fiddling to get running properly. A few of the examples could be more realistic, but the underlying points come across clearly. The author avoids over-explaining, which keeps the pace up but means you need to pay attention. If you have the prerequisites, this is an easy recommendation. I will be keeping it on my desk rather than the shelf.

A superb guide. The examples are small but complete.

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 early chapters move quickly through material I already knew, but the later sections were genuinely new to me. The book rewards careful reading. Skimming it would be a mistake. This is the book I wish had existed when I started working with graphics & gpu.

Good value. Not perfect, but I would buy another book from this author.

I have been working with graphics & gpu for a few years now and I still found plenty here that was new to me. The balance between theory and practice is well judged; neither side dominates. The balance between theory and practice is well judged; neither side dominates. Recommended, with the caveat that it is not a gentle introduction.