These books okay?

[pizzaboy]

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Hey everyone I would just like to ask of your valued opinions about the following books. I am a complete novice but i pretty much have digested the basics of c++. WIll these books suffice if I would like to go to game development?

C++ primer plus 5th ed
game coding complete 3rd ed
beginning c++ through game programming 3rd ed
3d game programming for teens

[cebugdev]

Hey everyone I would just like to ask of your valued opinions about the following books. I am a complete novice but i pretty much have digested the basics of c++. WIll these books suffice if I would like to go to game development?

C++ primer plus 5th ed
game coding complete 3rd ed
beginning c++ through game programming 3rd ed
3d game programming for teens

C++ primer plus 5th ed <-- Good book for C/C++
game coding complete 3rd ed <-- not recommended for novice/beginner like you. You need to understand
3d theory/math, directx rendering pipeline, design patterns, OOP/OOC before you can grasp the lessons on this book. Pero this book is cool if you know DX already

beginning c++ through game programming 3rd ed<--recommended for programming novice but not recommended in progrmaming discipline

3d game programming for teens <-- not recommeded even to beginners, this book focuses more on the game part not on the engineering part.

[pizzaboy]

so any books you could recommend after understanding and learning c++?

[cebugdev]

so any books you could recommend after understanding and learning c++?

it will take time before you fully 'understand' and 'learn' C++, it is just a language, but the discipline of usage takes time

Learn design patterns first
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Pattern...9217797&sr=8-1

learn OOP first.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...ed+programming

Ofcourse, to write an application in MS Windows, you need to learn windows programming first using Windows SDK, mao ni ang foundation sa mga directx programmers.

kaning libro ni Petzold kay mao ni ang bible sa mga windows programmer;
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Wi...9218420&sr=8-1

after learning the core of windows programming, learn the Graphics part, its the Graphics Device Interface of Windows (GDI)

before diving to directx or OpenGL.

this book is good introduction to directx (But most of the theories you need to understand by your own and ofcourse by experience)

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-P...9217893&sr=1-2

it takes time and experience to learn bro, specially dli nmo field ang programming goodluck bai

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hi interested sad ko ani, ma acquire ra ning mga libroha locally? like sa mga bargain books? kay mejo mahal jud sa amazon, ang 'Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software' tag $39, huhu

[pizzaboy]

thank you au bai kbaw man ko i still got a long way to go pero gahi man kog pagkataw if maganahan gle kog ako jud na ipursue though di ko graduate ug any computer degree, i believe na maka learn ra ka ani if pursigidu ka. Before naa kay wa man gni degree ang game development karun ra so i think na mada rajud ni if mag study lng jud ka

[cebugdev]

hi interested sad ko ani, ma acquire ra ning mga libroha locally? like sa mga bargain books? kay mejo mahal jud sa amazon, ang 'Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software' tag $39, huhu

most of these specialized books dli makita dri sa pinas,
sa amazon ra jd ko moorder,
kanang Design Patterns ug kanang libre ni Petzold kay amazon ra na nako gipalit.
also ubang books for directx/gameprogramming ug uban pang programming books.

infact kng gibaligya na dri locally kay mas mahal gani na mga libroha, kita ko one time dx na book sa national
mas mahal compare sa amazon+shipping gani.

[Deathnote]

sa mga low on budget like me u can also try downloading ebooks...its a form of piracy though...

[cebugdev]

sa mga low on budget like me u can also try downloading ebooks...its a form of piracy though...

yeah btaw daghan btaw ebooks available
ang only problem sa ebook kay..
since these are technical books
1. you dont have the source code or accompanying cd with it. unless makakita ka sa iyang source online.
2. you dont have the right support from the author of the book. Trust me this is very usefull specially
technical stuff like game programmimng.
3. its piracy

[pizzaboy]

naa ra man ang mga source code online. they post it on their website and the books has samples man sad. Pero i guess way mu beat sa source code jud.