Animation Magic with Visual Basic 5 (Learning to program) Book

	Contents in full
	About the author
	Introduction
Pt. 1	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	1
Ch. 1	Hello World - Animation in your first program	3
Ch. 2	What is a sprite? - Learning about data structures	16
Ch. 3	At your command - Introducing some syntax	35
Ch. 4	Making decisions - The choice is yours	52
Ch. 5	Building blocks - Sub-routines and functions	70
Ch. 6	OOPs - So what is object-orientated programming?	86
Pt. 2	The Magic Box	105
Ch. 7	Animation Art - It's life but not as we know it	107
Ch. 8	Your toolbox - Making tools with Visual Basic	121
Pt. 3	Game Magic	149
Ch. 9	Platform games - Jump to it!	151
Ch. 10	Puzzle games - It makes you think	182
Ch. 11	Simulation - Megalomania made easy	201
Ch. 12	Screensavers - Make them fun!	223
Ch. 13	Ray casting - Using simple 3D in your games	246
Pt. 4	Web Magic	273
Ch. 14	ActiveX controls - As easy as falling off your keyboard	275
Ch. 15	Introducing VBScript - Make your web pages fun	291
Ch. 16	VBScript and sprites - Animation on your web site	316
Ch. 17	Palettes - The mystery of the Windows Palette Manager	340
Ch. 18	Introducing 3D programming - Now you can move in and out	357
	Postscript	397
	Appendices	399
App. A	Introducing Visual Basic	401
App. B	Visual Basic code conventions	414
App. C	Using the Sprite Dynamic Link Library	419
App. D	Using the Sprite ActiveX Control	426
App. E	All the maths you need!	431
App. F	ASCII character set	441
	Bibliography	443
	Index	445