Hello fellow coders. In this section, I have compiled (pun intended) a collection of books, links, and other resources to help you prone your skills.

Books:

Title Language Pages Chapters Media Grade Black Art of Macintosh Game Programming C 777 22 CD A Code Complete C / Basic 807 33 -- C Cutting Edge 3D Game Programming with C++ C++ 691 14 CD B+ Data Structures and Program Design in C C 647 12 -- B- Foundations of Mac Programming C 682 16 CD A MacsBug Reference and Debugging Guide C / PPC Asm 422 9 Disk B Next Generation Magazine -- -- -- -- B On To C++ C++ 297 50 -- A- OpenGL Programming for the X Window System C 523 7 -- B PowerPC Microprocessor Developer's Guide PPC Asm 382 4 -- C Practical Algorithms for Programmers C 570 10 -- B- Programming Starter Kit for Macintosh C 800 21 CD A Sex, Lies, and Video Games C 394 12 Disk B Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus C 719 19 CD B+ Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus C 842 14 CD A

Web Pages:

Title Language Description Grade DevHQ: Mac Dev. HQ -- Tons of info and even news just for the Macintosh Developer. A- Mac Demos HQ C(++) / PPC Asm The best Mac Demo resource site that I know of. A- Mac Game Designer -- A future resource to get lots of stuff. The PR sounds really good. -- Mac Game Programming C / PPC Asm My favorite site covering tons of tricks you'd want to know for Macintosh game programming. A+ Power Toolbox C Lots of very nicely written functions that are better and easier than the Toolbox (ie line skipping movies). A

Resources / Code:

Title Language Description Grade Anti-Aliasing C A fast but unoptimised partially functional anti-aliased line algorithm I made. C+ Bubble Sort C A fast sorting algorithm that can be used on the fly. A- Fast Blit C One of George Warner's blitting routines for 8- to 8-bit copying. A+ Intel Assembly x86 Asm Notes for an Intel assembly presentation to the JHU ACM in Fall '97. B- Mac-Games-Dev-List -- Technical discussions about authoring games for the Mac. A- 3d Programming C / x86 Asm Notes for a 3D graphics presentation to the JHU ACM in Fall '97 B+ Quick Sort C One of the fastest sorting algorhithms... I need to change the partition function to make it more optimised. B

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