An introduction. Nothing more, nothing less.

I guess this book delivers what it promises, more or less. It effectively introduces you to directx. It devotes 20 or so pages to each of 20 or so topics (the dimensions of the book are real small though, so the page counts are somewhat misleading). By the end of the book you'll understand what directx is and what directx can do, but what I found is that there just isn't enough "meat" there to learn any part of directx well enough to do anything useful with this knowledge.

Other Reviews

• Great Direct X intro
• Really worth the buy if you want to digg into Direct3D
• The best book I have found so far
• A very good introductory book
• An introduction. Nothing more, nothing less.