moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (02/20/91)
First, thanks to all who replied to my query requesting recommendations for
books dealing with Windows programming. Went out and got the Petzold book,
and along with the SDK, I think that will do the trick. (Though I am
curious about Borland C++ for Windows -- looks like it might be easier to
ramp up with that in the first place.) Below are the results.
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From: millerj@belize.crd.ge.com (Julia K. Miller)
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I have two books that I found useful; Programing Windows by
Charles Petzold published by Microsoft Press and Peter Norton's Windows
3.0 Power Programming Techniques by Peter Norton and Paul Yao published
by Bantam. They ran about $25-$30 a piece. Both had good examples,
much better than the SDK manuals. You could type in their examples word
for word (they included all the necessary files) and they worked with no
alternations. I liked some of the examples in the Norton book better
but they covered similar topics. They usually did the examples in a
different way so it was useful to study the two. I'd recommend both or
either.
Julia Miller
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From: lpw%lance.esd.sgi.com@SGI.COM (Lance Welsh)
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Petzold's book is the best (at least it was for the previous
Windows version - and I believe the new one is out as well.
I'll be interested in seeing the responses.
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From: ice@wang.com (Fredrik Nyman)
Get Charles Petzold's "Programming Windows", 2nd ed.
Microsoft Press, $29.95, ISBN 1-55615-264-7
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From: wayne@teemc.TMC.MI.ORG (Michael R. Wayne)
In article <1991Jan31.183749.811@tc.fluke.COM> you write:
>I'd like to hear opinions about the various books dealing with programming
>in Windows 3, good or bad. I'm in the market for one; I'm a
>semi-DOS-literate programmer with some Mac experience (mea culpa :-) )
>programming in C, and will probably be using the MSC compiler with the
>Windows SDK, or (when it comes out) the Borland Windows C++ package.
>
>I imagine this question gets asked every 3 months or so (I'm new to the
>group), so please e-mail me your comments, and I will summarize them in a
>couple of weeks.
Assuming you purchase the SDK (you won't get too far w/o it), the
ONLY book worth buying is "Programming Windows" 2nd edition by Charles
Petzold, ISBN 1-55615-264-7, Microsoft Press, $29.95 (US). All the other
books appear to be re-hacks of the SDK docs with a few tidbits of
new example code thrown in. If you, er, "acquire" the SDK, you can purchase
reprints of the books that accompany the SDK at the bookstore. You can
write me mail if this is what you want, I don't have the info here.
The Petzold book you want has a big 3 on the cover (I don't know what the
first edition looks like but it wasn't for Windows 3.0).
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