ok, GamerRick, why did you lie?
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People have made an effort to help you out on this forum despite your abrasive posture, and on top of that, you know full well that people on this forum have gotten his sample to work, yet you point out that nobody has gotten it to work? Is that to cover up your incompetence in not being able to figure out what so many others have already done? It's really amazing how much being a mainframe programmer for 18 years teaches you about game development. This may come as a shock to you, but game development is very different from mainframe programming, and your experience with mainframes, no matter how admirable, do not have any bearing on your potential with game development.
Also, I do believe his response to you was to revamp the sample code to make it easier for people such as yourself to get it working, Not to ask somebody else. The beta of the recently released revamp was announced on this forum long before you wrote that review in this thread:
mcshaffry.com/GameCode/thread.php?threadid=496&sid=
Remember that?
You are privy to your own opinions on the book, and some of them even have merit, but to FLAT OUT LIE about people not being able to get his sample to work when it was you who couldn't get his sample to work, and also lie about his response to your problem is just baffling.
amazon.com/gp/product/19321119…n=507846&s=books&v=glance
I only got about 150 pages into the book before trying to check out the sample program that can be downloaded from the author's site. It will not compile for several reasons. First, he just has some basic errors in it that you can fix. Secondly he uses three 3rd party SDKs that are no longer available in the way he used them. [SIZE=4]His response to me was that I should talk to someone else on the forum that figured out all the changes that must be made to get the game to work with the latest SDKs.[/size] Apparently, he does not see it as his job to provide working samples, [SIZE=4]and no one has gotten the game to function correctly even after fixing the many compile problems.[/SIZE] Thus the 2 stars.
Other than that, the book is geared to teaching you how to handle the larger aspects of game development, like how to manage your files, and what source version manager he thinks is best. Having been a mainframe programmer for 18 years, I can tell you that there is not one way to do anything, and if you go into a new job with a long list of ways you think they should be done, you will have difficulty adapting to the methods, procedures, and tools of that shop.
There is some good information in it, but the lack of a working sample pretty much ruins it for me.
People have made an effort to help you out on this forum despite your abrasive posture, and on top of that, you know full well that people on this forum have gotten his sample to work, yet you point out that nobody has gotten it to work? Is that to cover up your incompetence in not being able to figure out what so many others have already done? It's really amazing how much being a mainframe programmer for 18 years teaches you about game development. This may come as a shock to you, but game development is very different from mainframe programming, and your experience with mainframes, no matter how admirable, do not have any bearing on your potential with game development.
Also, I do believe his response to you was to revamp the sample code to make it easier for people such as yourself to get it working, Not to ask somebody else. The beta of the recently released revamp was announced on this forum long before you wrote that review in this thread:
mcshaffry.com/GameCode/thread.php?threadid=496&sid=
Originally posted by GamerRick
Sounds good to me Mike. Thanks.
I have moved on to other books. So, I can wait. Sorry for the ruckus.
Remember that?
You are privy to your own opinions on the book, and some of them even have merit, but to FLAT OUT LIE about people not being able to get his sample to work when it was you who couldn't get his sample to work, and also lie about his response to your problem is just baffling.