Bad job

I usually work my own code from the examples in the text, and don't even bother with the author's code on the CD. But after comparing my non-running code to the code in the book, and finding no difference, I resorted to grabbing the code from the CD just to compare it. Imagine my shock to find that the samples in the book didn't match the CD! He's got DirectX 4 code on the CD! So I changed his DirectX 4 calls with the DirectX 7 calls he gives in the text, and it didn't work! His own examples don't work! This guy should be told to compile and run his code before he releases it. And Sams should insist that the code on the CD matches the code in the book!

And to make matters worse, each chapter builds on the last, so now how am I supposed to continue?

Don't bother with this book. Find another book, a class or just read the documentation that comes with DirectX.

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