Hey,
THese are my choices. I consider them all to be pretti suitable for me. To give you an idea of my experience, i only made a connect4 and an othello game. I can't buy all of them at once, which one should i buy first? The candidates are:
Windows Game Programming For Dummies
Teach yourself game programming in 24 hours
Tricks of the windows game programming gurus
Game design: theory and practice
I don't really recommend any Sams books. A lot of them that I've read seem to have non-ANSI solutions.
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Game design: theory and practice
But would'nt it be quite boring if you're just reading how to design a game? I'm just a hobby game programmer, so do i really need to get into this depth of game design?
"Tricks of the windows game programming gurus"
Thats a very good book, but it deals primarily with direct draw.
i don't like directdoodle...
If i may make a seperate reccomendation i would nominate OpenGL Game Programming by Kevin Hawkins/Dave Astle.
I never trusted them 'teach yourself ******* in ** hours'
i agree, i never was a fan of those, in particular SAMS.
I never trusted those books simply because they say its a fact
that you can teach yourself c++ in 24, wich is just bull.
Someone might not be gifted with programming skillzor and
have a hard time learning and taking it longer then 24 days
resulting in a sue
can you imagine some grandmom picking that up for her nighttime reading.....lol
Hehe.
Besides learning C++ in 24 hours is impossible.
Hence you skip everything that makes C++ C++ (Polymorph,Classes,Structs,Namespaces)
hmmm
7 days in a week
30 days in a month
5 months....
if my math is right i have been programming for 3600 hours. Not exact as i don't program 24 hours a day, but it makes a strong point :P
But besides the claim for you to learn in 24 hours is there any more bad things about the teach yourself series?
What about the dummies one?
Tricks i will definitely buy, but i just want to know which one should i buy first now.
Actually i think you can realli learn the stuff in 24 hours, but not in one day i mean, spread out.
>>But besides the claim for you to learn in 24 hours is there any more bad things about the teach yourself series?
Yes, they suck for reference.
Well.......ANY good points about that series???
