I took a game dev class at UC San Diego that used "Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus" by Andre LaMothe as its main text. Good book that does a full treatise on windows and direct x programming....it's thicker than a dictionary (1000 pages) and comes with software to get you started...it's pretty much an introduction to everything a game programmer will need other than, of course, an understanding of the language...you need to really understand C or C++ to do games, unless you're doing simple web games...

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