Pretty bad

I bought one of Maneesh Sethi's older books, the 2nd edition, and what the first review hadsaid is very true with both books. The samples that are included on the CD dont work and ill tell you why. They were ment for his first edition book, which uses an acient compiler!!! the new Blitz compilers work differently adn all he did was take from the first book's samples and copied them to his newer books showing his laziness and a race for more money by recreating the same book overand over using almost the esact same material as the last one. Another thing is he doesnt even truly understand how to use the compiler language properly! in the last book he shows cheep examples that are filled with bugs, and hardly goes over all the basics. I have been programign for 6 years now and these books are embarrassments! I've even email the author many times with questions he was hardly able to answer and even worse (going back to the book) some of the chapters just repeat themselves. Once you get to the final project there are a bunch of code and compands that are added that he never explained in the book. i do not recomend this book and if you do manage to read through the book you end up learning that most of what he teaches is very bad adn that ar4e much better techniques to achieve stronger and more entertaining events in video game programing

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• Pretty bad
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