Total newbie question

How might I go about settting up a basic program to draw a landscape and move the user around using inputs from a device. In DX I used to just manipulate the camera but that M$ is to limiting so I’m learning GL:- how might I go about accomplishing this easily. I have seen examples of sources of this but they all are way to complicated and contain too much other code for a newbie to understand. Compiling under MSVC++.

Transformation: use functions like, glRotate, glTranslate, gluLookAt …

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