From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,939815ae57ae2c27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Stephen Leake Subject: Re: windows programming tutorials Date: 1999/08/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 512015057 References: <7ol70d$e4g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7om2kq$214m$1@news.gate.net> <7onqa3$9ol$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7ooes4$339m$1@news.gate.net> <7otdau$9h6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37B2D994.9C1DDDB2@pwfl.com> <37B33248.AACCF655@pwfl.com> Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic writes: > jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl wrote: > > > 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). > > > > Thanks. Do you have a title? I want to call our library and have them order it so I can > look it over. Given that Pratt has just announced the closing of the Florida plant, and > my fear of Connecticut snowflakes in any quantity makes me reluctant to move, I figure > now is a good time to dust off some of the more marketable skills and Win32api is > something useful. FWIW, the Marshall Brain book is pretty good for as far as it attempts > to go - it just doesn't cover GUI stuff. "Programming Windows 95", Charles Petzold, Microsoft Press 1996 "Win32 Programming", Brent E. Rector, Joseph M. Newcomer, Addison-Wesley, 1997 Marin - I heard on the news Pratt & Whitney is moving to Connecticut! Are you going to have to give up your location in the sun? Maybe you'd consider coming to Washington DC and writing Ada for NASA, instead of moving all the way to the Frozen North :). -- Stephe