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Book:   AI for Game Developers
Subject:   Where's the code?
Date:   2006-05-21 21:21:33
From:   curtis
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

Perhaps I have been spoiled but good books come with an electronic version of the code in the book. This book to a great extent does not! There are example programs but some are written for Windows and some, I presume, are for the Mac. However, many of the code snippets found in the book are either non existent in electronic form or they are buried with no easy way to find them.


This would be semi-acceptable if the code was well explain but, too often, the obvious parts are explained and the more obtuse parts are left for the reader to guess. There are two common ways to grasp code. One is to read a detailed edplanation; the other is to run the code. Since the explanations are poor and it is not an easy matter to run the code, this book fails a key test.

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