Review:This book was terrible. Pictures were printed on plain printer paper, and the pictures were pixalized. Poor printing settings, and general lack of effort. Also, this book is really only useful if you play minecraft pc. It has a few hints for other systems, but in general nothing that will truly help you do anything. Read more

Review:DK puts out some fantastic books. The books are always ruggedly constructed and have wonderful illustrations.

This book is no exception. For fans of World of Warcraft (WoW), you will recognize most if not all of the artwork.

It is a bit of a survey book. That is almost unavoidable though, because there is a lot of material. You could probably do a five volume set of books this size and still not cover all of the existing WoW lore.

The book covers the current WoW canon (t... Read more

Review:I found the book to be well written and thorough. Although it is really for anyone who may have never played a street fighter title or a fighting game before, it does offer veterans of the game some outside perspective on strategy.

I do feel the book could have gone more in depth with some areas such as red focus, delayed wake up, and frame data understanding. Not saying frame data is key, but understanding it will give you more understanding of game engine and priority of buttons hit.Read more

Review:Author describes his view on development of games. Examples from Magic: The Gathering to projects for Disneyland.

Book is filled with interesting ideas and approaches for game development.

It is totally worth to read more than once. Don't believe to reviews - just try a sample. Read more

Review:This is great book for learning C++!! It talks about the topic in very understandable wording, then goes into a sample coding project, giving adequate descriptions concerning what is going on in the code. I knew the basics before I got the book, so I cannot speak for the first few chapters, but I can verify that the chapters about classes, pointers, and memory allocation are very well-written and is a great book overall!! Read more

Review:The book has some content, but as other reviewers noted, it is bad-organized and insufficient. The same way that in R the data frame is some sort of utilitarian ostrich that can sing, fly and run, this book is a crossing between a tutorial, a programming guide and a programming reference, albeit it does not excel at any.

Things that could have helped the book is a start with a more conceptual analysis of the data-structures in R, after all, there is plenty of free information in the Inte... Read more

Review:I come to this book from the perspective from someone who has written python for many years and who has been involved in the technology world for quite some time. My children are growing up and I would like them to have confidence with programming no matter what career path they choose in life. Programming is not so much a means to an income, but a tool that empowers you to get things done no matter what your chosen career is.

My problem, how do I teach this to my kids. This book has g... Read more

Review:Don't believe all the Gamer Haters who crawled out to attack what's his names ex girlfriend. I guess no one is allowed to dump a Gamer Hater. I plan to read the book this coming weekend. In the meantime, trust reviews from verified buys over the Gamer Haters. Read more