Microsoft XNA Game Studio 2.0: Learn Programming Now!

by Rob Miles

This engaging, learn-by-doing guide combines fun and games with the fundamentals of computer programming. Computer programming often has a reputation as being mired in details and short on fun. Now... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735625220
• ISBN13: 9780735625228
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Mrs

The book arrived in good condition with a CD, same as it advertised. Very appreciated.

Amazing so far!

If you're new to XNA like I was, this will make an excellent book for you. For someone with no programming experience, you might want to get that first. This book touches on really basic concepts for review but probably does not go in depth enough to teach it to you. But for someone with programming experience, but not XNA experience, this book has been amazing. Everything is very clear, the code runs great, and i've actually had fun doing it. Apparantly there is source code online, but I've never gone to the site. Everything is in the book, so if you read and understand it, you should be able to do it on your own and actually learn something. For someone with XNA experience that wants more, you'd probably just find review materials in here. You'd be better off looking elsewhere. But for someone in my shoes I'd definately recommend this book. It's everything I wanted it to be.

Very helpful book

I got this book at Barnes & Noble, so it was the 'newer version' without the CD or the promise thereof. It wasn't a problem at all for me, as everything is very easy to access online...and I'd prefer to buy the book at a cheaper cost and download the software than pay extra for a CD. The content, at least the part that I've read is very informative for a newbie programmer like me. I'm only on Chapter 3, but if you're already experienced in C#, this book might not be for you. Everything is clearly explained, and the length of the book is perfect - long enough to be thorough, but not so long to be intimidating. Highly recommended.

Makes XNA easier to understand

Ok so the book dosen't come with a CD, big deal you can download everything online. The main point is the content within the book. I found the book very helpful. It gives you definitions to common terms, makes easy to understand comparisons from real world things. All in all a good book for begginers.

Changing My 2 star review to a five star

Go to "very silly games" dot com to get the source code. (no spaces in the names). the author is apologizes for the error on his site. The XNA GSE and Visual Studio Express are available at the Microsoft site. It IS totally free to write games to Windows, and easy to port over to the XBOX 360 later. I give 5 stars because the author jumped right on the source code issue. And since I got the code I found the book very helpful. It helped me understand the other 4 or 5 books on XNA and C#.