- ISBN13: 9781592005178
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Are you ready to try your hand at programming games using C#? “Beginning C# Game Programming” is your ideal introductory guide—designed to jumpstart your experience with C# and DirectX 9. It includes the fundamental topics you’ll need to know and covers additional topics that you’ll find helpful along the way. Begin with a comprehensive look at programming with C#—from the basics of classes to advanced topics such as polymorphism and abstraction. Then it’s on to DirectX 9 as you learn how to create a basic framework and a Direct3D device. You’ll also cover DirectSound and DirectInput. Put your newfound knowledge to the test as you program a complete game!
Provides true beginners with the programming skills they need to create games using C#.
Shows readers how to combine C# with DirectX 9.
Covers comprehensive game development topics, including sound and graphics.
Comes complete with Q&As, extensive end-of-chapter exercises, and a CD to reinforce self-practice and learning.
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This book is not for anyone who hasn’t done programming before. After a nice introduction and history report, the author suddenly starts showing you charts with things like “ushort 2 0 is 65,535″. And says stuff like “Using floats, you can represent the numbers 1.0 and 1.00000012, but you can’t represent any number between.” What?! What does ushort mean? What are floats?! I must be just stupid, because when I read “This book approaches the topic of C# for a total beginner”, I thought it meant it was for a noob like me.
Amazon User Rating: 1 / 5
Realy nice book. I’m not new in C# programing but i’m new in in game programing. This book was very helpful to me.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
DON’T listen to those retards when they tell you that this book is not good.
The first 5 chapters will basically show you most of what you should need
to know about C# in order to get on your way into game programming.
The rest are Game Programing, Setting up a framework, DirectX9 etc…
I’ve found this book very informative and very entertaining as well, the author always try to use humor when making points which is a good thing..
I’ve learned a lot from this book and I recommend it to everyone else interested in learning the basics of Game programing…
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
This is a nice basic introduction to game programming but, as mentioned before, there are mistakes. The version of Directx code is out of date.
Usually, one can go on-line and get updates to the code from the developer that fix the mistakes and get the code working with later releases.
Unfortunately the author has not updated the code and it doesn’t look as though the web site has been touched for a couple of years. It is riddled with missing links and php errors. For that reason alone, I just can not recommend this book to people who don’t have much experience as developers.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
I bought this book because I needed to learn C# really fast, but then I noticed that the only review of this book on amazon said it was terrible, so I got kinda worried. But it turns out that I was worried over nothing, because this book is great! It teaches almost every topic I needed in an easy and playful manner, so I never got bored or confused. The book even goes as far as teaching how to write a complete arcade game, something that most books don’t even bother doing! 5 Stars, this is an excellent book, and I was able to learn C# in a very short time.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5