tdp@stbimbo.UUCP (Tim Porter) (11/06/90)
Myself and 4 other developers are in dire need of some training for programming MS-Windows applications. The world of MS-Windows is brand new to us, but we are experienced C programmers and have programmed using X-Windows. I have called about Microsoft University (any comments on this program?) but we can't get in a class until next year. Does anyone know where else we might obtain this sort of instruction? -- ******************************************************************************* | Tim Porter emory!stbimbo!tdp | | Sales Technologies, Inc Atlanta, GA (404) 841-4000 | *******************************************************************************
garyc@dbase.A-T.COM (Gary Carter) (11/17/90)
What I did was read Petzold's 'Programming Windows' for several hours; then typed in, compiled, stepped through with Codeview, and ran the first few programs. Then I read the SDK reference books for a few hours, then tried out a few simple additions to one of the Petzold programs I had previously typed in. This got me going pretty well. You might try doing the same thing; then read the articles in this newsgroup and see if they make sense. If not, try out a program from the relevant chapter of Petzold, consult the SDK reference, and THEN see if they make sense. If you have already written C code for X-windows this should bring you up to speed pretty quickly. Also, try to find SOMEBODY who is writing Windows code to talk to for an hour or so once in a while. I attended a Microsoft University course in Windows, and found it pretty slow and vanilla. I think you'd learn a lot more following the first paragraph above for a week, than attending the U. for a week. I didn't feel I learned more than one or two minor points (that I hadn't noticed, but were right there in the SDK reference) in the whole class.