jlh@loral.UUCP (The Happy Hacker) (02/20/88)
I need to learn programming under Windows, and in the bookstore they've
got 2 shelves of books. Can anyone give me a recommendation as to which
are any good? Also, I need a book that describes the file formats of
Lotus, Dbase, Reflex, and Symphony. I found 2 books, each of which has
2 of the formats I need. Is there a book with all 4 of these in it?
My background. I am pretty good with C, 8086 assembly, MS-dog, unix.
If the book insists on teaching me all about bits, bytes, and booting
my pc it's probably too basic for my needs.
Jim
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Jim Harkins
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
{ucbvax, ittvax!dcdwest, akgua, decvax, ihnp4}!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!jlhdan@srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel) (02/22/88)
In article <1548@loral.UUCP> jlh@loral.UUCP (The Happy Hacker) writes: >I need to learn programming under Windows, and in the bookstore they've >got 2 shelves of books. Can anyone give me a recommendation as to which >are any good? I just bought "Programming Windows" by Microsoft Press for $30 at the local bookstore. It is a great introduction to writing Windows applications- it gets the details across without blowing your mind, which is more than I can say for the developer's toolkit. It even gets into some of the nitty gritty details. I'm an assembly and C hacker from way back, and this book was quite appropriate for me. -- Dan Kegel srs!dan@cs.rochester.edu dan%srs.uucp@cs.rochester.edu rochester!srs!dan