Can anyone help me find which books to refer for game programming (beginners)

Can anyone help me find which books to refer for game programming (beginners)

Which language are you using? I know good sources for Java.

I am assuming you have a solid understanding in Java.

Books:

Killer Game Programming by Andrew Davison

Developing Games in David Brackeen

Videos by ChernoProject 2D game programming in Java:

If you want to get an overall grasp on what's going on, I would recommend "Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming" by Jason L. McKesson. It features OpenGL and C/C++. Here is a link to the materials: http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/

Aside from that, as warnexus said above, "Killer Game Programming" by Andrew Davidson is a very good title.