Vidya development

I'm being serious, this isn't a troll thread or whatever.

Im interested in developing games using C++ and OpenGL. My question however is, where do I even start? In a cg artist, so rigging/animating low poly models and creating landscapes isn't an issue. Can I even learn all this without going through a college CS course? What are the things I need to know (optimization, vector math, etc)? Any recommended books?

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I write code at my job and as a hobby and currently I am actually working on an OpenGL probject as a hobby. You don't see me asking stupid stuff on web. sage if you have nothing to contribute