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A Crash Course in XNA

Pong: The Hello World of Game Development

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Building XNA 2.0 Games

Abstract

Programming primers often start with some derivative of “Hello World”—a terrifically simple program whose sole purpose in this world is to greet it. For example, a Hello World program in BASIC would read something like this:

$$ \begin{gathered} 10 PRINT ''HELLO WORLD''. \hfill \\ 20 END \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$

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© 2008 James Silva and John Sedlak

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(2008). A Crash Course in XNA. In: Building XNA 2.0 Games. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0980-5_2

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