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Title: Programming Windows, Fifth Edition by Charles Petzold ISBN: 1-57231-995-X Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 11 November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (69 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Solid book on windows programming
Comment: This book is excellent for learning windows programming. To the reviewer who complains about no c++ examples, the author clearly states in the first few pages of the book that his intention is to give an understanding of windows programming based on C and the underlying win32 API, which is the fundamental knowledge required for windows programming. Other OO architectures such as MFC can be very useful but hide from the programmer many details which can be important for someone trying to learn how windows programs work. Also, the complaint about no asserts in the book .. well, again, the author mentions in the book that he left them out (in most places) because it makes code less readable, and students are less likely to read and understand a long program full of error checking.
Be warned, this book is huge, 1500 pages. Its not a book for those looking for a quick introduction to windows programming. Its intended to give an in-depth knowledge of windows programming and it does a very good job at that.
Rating: 4
Summary: Lots of topics covered, with just enough info on each one
Comment: If you're going to be programming for Windows, with or without MFC, you need this on your bookshelf. Petzold covers nearly everything, including a good overview of unicode right up front where it belongs. He then goes on to cover the GDI, mouse and keyboard input, modal and modeless dialogs, most common controls, and very basic multithreading issues. All chapters contain complete, working examples that leave lots of room for you to play around once you've convinced yourself you understand the basic concepts. I haven't run through all of them yet, but I haven't found any erros in those I've used.
All I'd add for the next edition is a discussion of Z ordering, an overview of resource scripts (to break the dependence on the Visual C++ wizards), serialization, and perhaps a little more detail on parent/child relationships. As it stands now, this book doesn't lend itself as well to use with the Borland compilers as it does with Microsoft's.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great book to get you on your way!
Comment: I would reference this book as the "bible" of win32 programming. This book covers many features of the Windows 95/98/NT features including printing, MDI, Mouse, Keyboard, and all the goodies.
This book sits upon my desk as the #1 reference when writing win32 code (without MFC). If your new to programming and are thinking about MFC I would consider starting with this non-object oriented approach so you understand what MFC is doing behind all the objects.
Easy reading (compared to other programming books) and a great deal of learning can be done.
To 4th edition "Programming Windows 95" owners:
1. If you want to use ToolBar's you better hold on to the last revision because it's missing in this one. I was very unhappy about that.
2. It's huge! If you thought carrying that last book was an issue, add a hard cover and a ton more pages and you've better start working out before carrying this around.
3. More usage of UNICODE and "NT" style information that is repeated in each code segment so be prepared.
It's a revision, and it's good. It's the best out there right now, but will not solve every problem you'll have.
Note: If you like object oriented, and uses of all the enhanced features of C++ you're not going to find it here.
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Title: Programming Windows With MFC by Jeff Prosise ISBN: 1572316950 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Win32 System Programming: A Windows(R) 2000 Application Developer's Guide (2nd Edition) by Johnson M. Hart ISBN: 0201703106 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 29 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Introduction to MFC Programming with Visual C++ by Richard M. Jones ISBN: 0130166294 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 22 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Win32 Programming by Brent E. Rector, Joseph M. Newcomer ISBN: 0201634929 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 06 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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Title: The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference by Nicolai M. Josuttis ISBN: 0201379260 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 12 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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