Subj : Re: Windows Procedural Programming
To   : comp.programming
From : alfps
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 03:00 am

* Phlip:
> * Alf P. Steinbach:
> > * someone:
> > >
> > > For SDK programming you could start with Programming Windows by Charles
> > > Petzold.
> >
> > Good advice.
> 
> Why not start in assembler?

Presumably you know the answer to that?

So I think the question really is, why recommend a book based on C?

Because it's the best book there is on the GUI side of the Windows API.  The
use of C in the book is in a sense good because the details are exposed,
which is what you need for understanding.  It is however the opposite of
what you want in real applications, where the details just complicate.


> The OP thinks that learning OO will be hard, and required for windows. OO
> will make a wrapper library easy to learn for windows.

Yep.

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