AI Agents in Virtual Reality Worlds: Programming Intelligent VR in C++

The good points: Clear, solid code, including unit test, integration test, class diagrams, comments. Code for Windows, Mac, and Unix. Both of these qualities are such a rarity in programming books, I'd be tempted to recommend the book just on principle. The bad points: The AIs presented aren't "deluxe" -- they work OK, but there's no bells and whistles here. The title is clearly designed to get a lot of "hits" in web searches. The redeeming values: If you know C++ (at least a little) you can read this book and produce a pretty good AI. Or you can just pop in the CD and see what the AIs do, no programming required. No nonsense or stupid programmer jokes, no pretense, just good code, VERY well presented.