From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl
Subject: Re: windows programming tutorials
Date: 1999/08/12
Date: 1999-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FGDArK.2D0@stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37B2D994.9C1DDDB2@pwfl.com
Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com> wrote:
: Out of curiosity - and respect for your considerable expertise in Win32ada - what
: books do you recommend as the best way to learn this? I've got a book called Win32
: System Services by Marshal Brain which I've found helpful for doing lots of casual
: hacking, but I'd like to find something a bit more "big picture" and that
: addressed the GUI stuff as well.
For the 'big picture' I find Petzhold's book still to be the best (but then,
I started OS/2 PM programming many moons ago with his OS/2 PM book).
For GUI programming I think that 'Win32 Programming' by Rector & Newcomer
(AWL) is one of the best, providing suffient detail (but, think 'Cohen' :-)
and am tempted to whisper 'gtk'...
For finding specific information, microsofts MSDN site is of course very
useful, although for us Ada types, their specifications leave something
to be desired.
And then, of course, you will need books on the the various specific topics,
from winsockets to com, which will start to stack up on your desk, and slowly
spread throughout your workspace, fighting for the best spots with your
Ada books...
--
-- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland
-- Team Ada | jdijk@acm.org
-- see http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-09 0:00 windows programming tutorials kryptoz
1999-08-09 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-08-09 0:00 ` kryptoz
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-11 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-16 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-08-09 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-08-09 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-08-10 0:00 ` kryptoz
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-10 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-08-12 0:00 ` kryptoz
1999-08-12 0:00 ` jerry
1999-08-12 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-12 0:00 ` jerry [this message]
1999-08-12 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-12 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-08-13 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-13 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-08-16 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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