My short little review of the webcast series.
First things first!
Microsoft held a free Video Game Development Webcast, which ended May 26th.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/ser...dnvideodev.mspx
The webcasts are still up on the MSDN site and you can watch them after the fact.
Digipen also have them in PDF and source code at their webiste:
http://www.digipen.edu/webcast
You need the April 2004 release of the DirectX SDK and 2.0 of the .NET framework.
Here is my short review, although I haven't actually completed watching/reading the last couple:
Overall the class was alright and a decent intro to game programming, in that it covered some of the basics of what goes into a game.
You get the source code to use however you want, not exactly sure what the legal requirements are, but you can check it out.
It will not teach you the fundamentals of programming (OO or otherwise), but it does teach C# decently.
It also covers the DirectX SDK pretty good, in the areas it is used.
Overall, a good course as a tutorial for newbies to game dev and programming, perhaps even for those, who want to make a medium jump from 'modding' to game developing.