I am a senior at University of DeVry in Game and Simlution Programming and this book fits in right with what I am learning at the time. It seems a little overtechnical at times but as I learn more about programming, I'm starting to understand it more and more. Its a good book but it needs to be updated. The scariest problem was not being able to run the code in the book until I found the update. The code on the disk needs to be updated via the authors web site which doesn't seem to be working when I checked. I had to google the title and find the updates that I finally got to work. Other than that it's cool. It's not as bad as some of the reviews I read. Be warned though, I think the author doesn't realize how smart he is and sometimes takes that fact for granted when he talks to his audience. Other than this, I think the author should make this a wiki-book or publish another more updated work.