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Title: Waste of Money
Review: I bought this book expecting to get some serious "tricks," however it turned out to be just a poor rehash of material from Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus. ALL, and I mean every last scrap of the information was basic, introductorly level material. But the most obvious problem with the book is that is cover so little on DirectX. Lamothe basically gives you a shabbily done version of the help files included with the Directx SDK. Information on 3d graphics is glaringly absent. The Directx portion of the book covers maybe 150-200 pages, the rest is banal knowledge on physics, Win32, and AI. All of it done in a cursory, unprofessional manner. This book is *not* worth the asking price. It WILL NOT teach you how to program in Directx, and if you already know how, it will not teach you anything new or usefull.
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