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> Petzold did the same on his highly acclaimed book takes me back. i thought it was crap. i used to work at The Instruction Set (one of UK's biggest tech train
by zabzonk 3y ago
> Petzold did the same on his highly acclaimed book
takes me back. i thought it was crap. i used to work at The Instruction Set (one of UK's biggest tech training companies at the time) and everyone hated the Windows/C course based on Petzold. my boss came up to me (somehow I was the windows guy in a unix company) and said "we need a new windows course" and me said "OK, i need a framemaker license and to work at home for a week" - worked out great.
this was early 90s, i suppose?
- pjmlp 3y agoAround 1991. I mostly programmed on Windows 3.x with TPW and TC++, alongside OWL. Those nice Borland manuals. For me, in what concerns C programming for Windows 3.x, the "Programmer's introduction to Windows 3.1" was a much better book. Mainly due to its coverage of windowsx and message macros. It's on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/programmersintro00myer https://archive.org/details/programmersintro00myer