Wow, I forgot all about the assembly challenge contests.  Back while I was in college my room mate and I were both computer science majors.  We downloaded tons of those 32k files that would blow your mind with the amount of stuff packed into them. 

Well, I'm just making a cookie cutter shooter style game right now to just learn the tools.  But I hear you about rehashed ideas.I've been really interested in the possibilities of using your own music (mp3's) to dictate certain variables in a game.  Although the more I look into it the more I find myself having to scale back the ...

I got the same book, it definately expects you have a baseline understanding of coding and C# before you start using the book.  I have never programmed in C#, but  have some programming experience in C, C++, Pascal (don't laugh...), BASIC and JAVA.  It was definately a big help, a lot of the info you might have been able to find on ...