OT: Programming Windows book (cheap)

DataMeister wrote on 5/20/2012, 12:38 AM

Does anyone here, besides the Sony employees, program for Windows? You might be interested in this book which is being pre-released similar to Windows 8. Until May 31st is only $10.

Programming Windows, 6th Edition
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145369079.do

Comments

PeterDuke wrote on 5/20/2012, 9:25 AM

I think Charles Petzold has been writing Windows Programming books since Windows 3.1 or even earlier.

Red Prince wrote on 5/20/2012, 8:24 PM

The $10 is just for the eBook, not for the printed book.

I still use the Windows 95 edition of this book, along with the Windows SDK (which is a free download from microsoft.com) for the latest changes.

The nice thing of the old edition is it uses plain C, not the silly languages like C#. C is easy to convert to assembly language, which is what most of my code is in.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/20/2012, 8:54 PM

I do coding but I try to stay OS neutral as I normally want to compile it on Linux too.

I don't think I've ever made a program that made a window in my life. I think I went from DOS years ago and started back up with OS independent a couple years ago.