I would like to thank the men and women at Cengage Learning who helped make this book possible. I would also like to thank Wendy Jones for all her hard work on the previous editions of the book. And I would like to give a special thanks to Emi Smith, who has been very patient and helpful with this whole process.

Thanks to Allen Sherrod for taking over the writing duties for the DirectX 11 version of this book. I truly appreciate all the hard work and research he’s put into it. I’d also like to thank Emi Smith for giving me the opportunity to work with Cengage Learning on multiple books.