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My favorite Petzold book is 'Programming Windows 95'
by bluedino 4y ago
My favorite Petzold book is 'Programming Windows 95'
- bena 4y agoI got the Fifth Edition. A book that's served me well. Learning the Win32 API, holding open doors, improvised weapon, it does it all.
- Dwedit 4y agoIt is a very large book indeed.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoAs doors got heavier it became necessary to add Petzold's windows programming with MFC book to the stack too, another massive (and great at the time) tome.
- formerly_proven 4y agoMy sample has a gigantic splat on its back because I threw it at some insect many years ago and it was positively crushed by The Petzold's impact force. Never cleaned that off because it added to the aesthetic of raggedness.
- matwood 4y agoDefinitely a classic from back when books were sold by weight.
- JJMcJ 4y agoIt's a large book but has very little fluff or padding in it. Covers a huge amount of ground. I learned a lot from it back when I did some Windows work back around 2000 to 2005. Also MFC.
- matwood 4y agoIt was an awesome book, and was basically required for win32 programming in the late 90s.