Jul 08, 2013 What's the Best Language for a Beginning Programmer? As a programming language, BASIC was generally reviled by digital elitists. Users can program interactive stories, games,. Oct 13, 2004 Jonathan Harbour, Beginning Game Programming (Thompson, 2005) Beginning Game Programming has been kind of the holy grail of programming books for me for years. I can't even remember how it got such stature in my head, but over the last year or two it became one of the books at the very top of my wish list.
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The fourth edition of Beginning Game Programming has been released to celebrate it's 10th anniversary! First published in 2004, this book has been a mainstay for aspiring DirectX programmers and teachers around the world.
This new edition updates the source code to Visual Studio 2013 without losing the reader with advanced techniques in the latest versions of DirectX (versi...more
This new edition updates the source code to Visual Studio 2013 without losing the reader with advanced techniques in the latest versions of DirectX (versi...more
Published June 25th 2014 by Cengage Learning (first published October 13th 2004)
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Beginning Game Programming has been kind of the holy grail of programming books for me for years. I can't even remember how it got such stature in my head, but over the last year or two it became one of the books at the very top of my wish list. When I found a copy for sale (relatively) cheap earlier this year, then, I jumped on it. Unfortunately, I had hyped it up so much in my head some disappointment was likely inevitable, but I tri...more
Beginning Game Programming has been kind of the holy grail of programming books for me for years. I can't even remember how it got such stature in my head, but over the last year or two it became one of the books at the very top of my wish list. When I found a copy for sale (relatively) cheap earlier this year, then, I jumped on it. Unfortunately, I had hyped it up so much in my head some disappointment was likely inevitable, but I tri...more
As a high school student, I not only enjoy video games but I really want to create them too. But go ahead and google the field and you'll find so much information to the subject you won't know where to begin. It's certainly something that requires a lot of patience and a lot of help to accomplish. This book is really helpful to someone who is just getting into game programming.
I had taken a year of computer programming, getting a 5 on my APCS exam. That was an exam about java. This book will re...more
I had taken a year of computer programming, getting a 5 on my APCS exam. That was an exam about java. This book will re...more
Sep 27, 2011Garrick rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Great content, with good explanations of everything you're going through. However, there are enough errors and discrepancies in the 3rd edition to cause more than a few moments of confusion. Both the code & the contents need a good editorial pass.
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Jonathan S. Harbour holds a Master's in Information Systems, with a focus in software project management. He spent five years as a college professor where he taught computer science, and has written extensively on game development. His background and fascination with AI and human behavior and physics fuels his fiction and he worked for years on database and web development while writing in his spa...more