I’m so humbled by your comment, and the one below.

I really knew nothing about “game programming” when I wrote the book, but I did know a few things about graphics programming, and in particular a thing called “WinG” that was a very short-lived extension to Windows that I had used a lot in a product I helped develop.

But most importantly for me, I wanted to write something that inspired a young person of the right inclination to become as fascinated by programming as I was.