Programming Windows, 5th Edition

Programming Windows is a tutorial for programmers wishing to write applications for Windows using the C programming language and the native Win32 application programming interface (API). Programs written using this book run under every version of Windows from Windows 95 through Windows XP and beyond. Knowledge of C is required.

ISBN: 1-57231-995-X; Microsoft Press; November 11, 1998; 1479 pages.

Use the Book with Gnu Tools

The example programs in Programming Windows are designed to be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++. If you would prefer to use the open-source Gnu programming tools to compile the programs, Gnu Makefiles For Charles Petzold's Example Programs has complete instructions and downloads.

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Code Complete (Microsoft Programming)

Product Description
"We were impressed by Code Complete...a pleasure to read, either straight through or as a reference. An invaluable $35 reference." - PC Week. This runaway bestseller is a practical guide to software design that discusses the art and science of constructing software. Examples are provided in C, Pascal, Basic, Fortran, and Ada, but the focus is on successful programming techniques.

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

The classic book on the human elements of software engineering. Software tools and development environments may have changed in the 21 years since the first edition of this book, but the peculiarly nonlinear economies of scale in collaborative work and the nature of individuals and groups has not changed an epsilon. If you write code or depend upon those who do, get this book as soon as possible -- from Amazon.com Books, your library, or anyone else. You (and/or your colleagues) will be forever grateful. Very Highest Recommendation.

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No book on software project management has been so influential and so timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. Now 20 years after the publication of his book, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (best known as the "father of the IBM System 360") revisits his original ideas and develops new thoughts and advice both for readers familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time.

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