Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A real waste of cash....

I got this book hoping that it would get straight to DirectX and 3D game programming. Instead I open up the book and find that the author had friends with Atari ST and Amiga 500 computers! Wowee! I thought that perhaps he was just giving a little bit of background on old computer games, but no, his story about the grand old days of his youth and how he was an arcade nerd go on and on. Instead of going straight into DirectX this book first tells you how TO INSTALL VISUAL BASIC!!!, and then starts at the very beginner level of programming with a program called "Chunky Pixels". From then it moves on to more advanced graphics tequniques using the windows API and BitBlt. It finally goes into DirectX on page 374 but it dosent go into anything 3D, instead it goes into DirectDraw and even more boring techniques of drawing 2D graphics. The book finally gets into a 3D game after 960 PAGES!!! Even then the only thing that the author does is make a dumb 3D pong game...