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For the last year or so, I've been trying to learn XNA and C#. I did numerous searches for tutorials on both of these subjects, but most of them assumed one already had a basic understanding of C# and dived straight-in to complicated commands that made no sense to me. I tried to find books on both subjects, but my library system only had outdated books and I couldn't afford to buy them.

But today I stumbled across this!

RB Whitaker has a ton of useful tutorials on the basics of XNA and has a C# crash course that should get someone going. I'm still going to buy books on XNA (it just seems a good idea to have it for reference), but I think this guy's tutorials will finally be enough to get me going coding my own 2D games with XNA!

Just one tutorial in (the one I linked to), and I already understand more of what's going on because he took the time to explain what everything was. Most tutorials I've seen just show you the code, don't explain anything and move on to the next chunk of code.

Hopefully, this will help someone out besides me! Is anyone else looking into XNA for game development?

This is great. Exactly what i need! Thanks!

I'm in the process of learning XNA for my final major project. Turns out the differences with xna 3 and 4 aren't that massive and most beginner xna 3 tutorials are more than enough to make a move forward with xna4.
That being said, XNA 4 tutorials are quite thin across the internet. I started learning XNA 3 with these video tutorials, the ones from msdn and some various other tutorials around the web (along with a LOT of fiddling on my part). It seemed to suffice with getting to grips with the basic way that XNA works. I then moved over to version 4 and bought a reference book.
I just prefer to read off the screen because my eyes are messed up.

Hey thanks, maybe ill finally move beyond dark basic. Btw XNA how hard is is compared to dark basic?

Here's quite a good tutorial if you follow the screams, and the backflips, I think you could end up repeating most of the moves...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gorn1AQWgw