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Focus On SDL Review by Nathan Tolbert
Great but a little short
I agree with most of the other reviews about this book. It does a good job of covering the basics of SDL, without tons of fluff. While I wish it had been a little bit longer, it included exactly what it said: an overview of SDL. The first two sections of the book, covering the core SDL library and some of the extra related libraries, were just the right amount of detail and explanation for someone who likes to peruse the material in book form. The author does a good job of talking to people who know how to write software, but who haven't had much experience with SDL.
The last third of the book was also basically filler, with a brief and relatively useless explanation of the author's preferred infrastructure for writing SDL games and apps.
Overall, I highly recommend this book, particularly if you can purchase it at it's relatively low cost used price. The quality was much higher than many of the other Premier Press/Prima Tech books.