Alright /prog/

I know this is probably just going to get a lot of troll replies, but I honestly want to know some good resources on learning Direct X programming. I already know C++ pretty well, and can find my way around a Windows program, but I have no access to classes or any irl lesson of any kind.

My only real options are books and online resources. Anyone willing to point me in the right direction?

>>7
You can read this interview with Tim Sweeney (the man behind the Unreal engines).
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gpu-sweeney-interview.ars

The gist is that back in the day, as I hope you know, 3d graphics were done all in software. Then graphics accelerators were introduced to do basically one thing: paint textured triangles on the screen. They could do it a lot faster than the CPUs of the time. Later generations got ever more flexible, until you've got today's situation: GPUs just parallel-processing optimized CPUs with a really bad interface, and even regular CPUs with multiple cores are competitive with low-end DX10 hardware. In coming years (very soon) the triangles and textures graphics APIs are going to be dropped in favor of running regular code on the GPU and/or CPU.