Reccomend

What other experience/background do you have?

Are you a complete beginner to programming in general? have you experience with C/C++ already?

Are you new to multimedia programming, or have you used other API's - OpenGL/SDL etc..?

Is your goal to learn multimedia programming or to just learn the API - they are different (albeit subtley) things [smile]


The SDK is a good place to start looking for general information: DirectX Graphics, DirectInput and DirectSound.

hth
Jack

In addition to a fantastic reply by Mr. JollyJeffers, I would suggest looking at the forum FAQ. This will put you on the right track.

I hope this helps.
Take care.

I have experiance in Managed C# Game Programming using DirectX, nothing about OpenGL. I have some experiance in just plain C++.