Beginning programmers often motivate themselves by creating a first project in a subject that they are interested in. Many young programmers are interested in game programming. Learn VB .NET Through Game Programming is a self-paced learning tutorial designed to help any developer master the basics of object-oriented programming (OOP) with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. Unlike other books on OOP, this easy-to-understand book provides readers with peer-level language, while illustrating concepts with definitive and intuitive game programming examples.
Matthew Tagliaferri has been writing software since 1982. He has written three previous computer programming titles, including Visual Basic .NET Codemaster's Library, The Quake Level Design Handbook, and The Duke Nukem 3D Level Design Handbook. Tagliaferri has worked on software for internal corporate use, as well as software to be sold in the retail market. Tagliaferri's corporate software area of specialty is executive information database systems and the retail software includes popular game-related software including the Doom ][ Screen Saver and the qED, a popular editing program for the game Quake.