It’s kind of like ordering food at a restaurant instead of shouting out your order and hoping the waiter hears you over all the noise, you can just write it down on a piece of paper (or in this case, code) and hand it to them directly.

Now let’s say you want to draw a triangle on your screen using Vulkan. Here are the basic steps:
1. Create a window for your program to display in (using GLFW). 2. Load up some graphics data into memory (like textures or models) and store it somewhere accessible by Vulkan. 3. Set up some variables that tell Vulkan where to find this data, how to use it, etc. 4. Create a command buffer (which is like a shopping list for your GPU) and add all the necessary commands to draw your triangle onto it. 5. Submit the command buffer to the queue (which is like handing over that shopping list to the waiter). 6. Wait for the GPU to finish processing everything on its plate before moving on to step 7. 7. Swap out the old framebuffer with a new one, so you can see your triangle in all its glory!

Now let’s say you want to add some fancy lighting effects or particle systems to your program using Vulkan. Here are some additional steps:
1. Create a shader module (which is like a recipe for how the GPU should process each pixel) and load it into memory. 2. Set up some variables that tell Vulkan where to find this shader, what input data to use with it, etc. 3. Add these variables to your command buffer along with any other necessary commands (like setting up lighting or spawning particles). 4. Submit the updated command buffer and wait for everything to finish processing before moving on to step 5. 5. Swap out the old framebuffer with a new one, so you can see all those fancy effects in action!

And that’s pretty much it! Vulkan may seem intimidating at first (especially if you’re used to more high-level APIs like OpenGL or DirectX), but once you get the hang of it, it’s actually quite simple and efficient. Plus, there are plenty of resources out there to help you learn from tutorials to forums to GitHub repositories full of example code. So don’t be afraid to dive in and start experimenting!