You should learn a programming language first. I suggest C or C++. You should buy some books on those programming languages and check out http://www.gamedev.net
They have a lot of good stuff for...

I have a book about TGE and I had the same problem. I don't think that it was the same book but try looking on the cd for the directory. That's where I found what I was looking for.

Does anybody know where I can find a good reference book or website about the Dark GDK Library?

Dark GDK come's with some PDF files that give you some basic tutorials. You can find them by going to Program Files\The Game Creators\Dark GDK\Tutorials. If you read all of them you should be able to...