There's also C++ Game Development By Example, which includes step-by-step instructions to create 2D and 3D template projects ... Humble's Game Programming C++ & Unreal Book Bundle is available ...

Mr. LaMothe, mathematician and computer scientist and author of the immensely well-received Tricks of the Windows Game Programming ... discussed in the book, stock art, 3D models, and sound ...

My cousin, after learning that Wolfenstein 3D was written in C++, picked up the Borland compiler and a book on game programming. He didn't get farther than creating level maps on graph paper.