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Title: Keep Looking
Review: Haven't read the book - but the intro chapter I can see online tells me this 'BlitzMax' language requires you to buy the compiler from the author's website to get the full capabilities. Otherwise you can't really make programs, game or otherwise, except on your own machine. And I see from a few other comments here that the demo (limited) version of BlitzMax that comes with the book expires after a few uses?! This isn't mentioned anywhere in the book's description...I'm a programmer myself, shopping for an intro text for my nephew. You can get a free compiler for just about any modern programming language - no one should have to pay for a compiler. I can only guess that the author wrote the book to help sell his BlitzMax compiler. LAME!Think I'll get him "Scratch Programming for Teens" instead; just checked wikipedia, Scratch is a (free!) educational programming language developed by the MIT Media lab.
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