Nice book for beginners

I like the fact that the author got out of his way to actually create a game to illustrate the software engineering methodology. Also, all the code and documents of the game are on the CD.

The only CON I would give to this book is that it keeps referring to things that have not been explained. So, if you are on Ch. 1 you have to quickly go and read a section on Ch. 3 to understand what the author is saying on Ch. 1 (Obviously Ch. 1 is an introduction to the whole book and it is supposed to talk about everything. This is just an example)

I would seriously recommend anyone interested in game developing and software engineering to get this book. Unlike other books in the Xtreme game developing series. Most of them are misleading.

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