From: hgfernan AT usp DOT br Subject: Re: (newbie) please be kind... 12 Dec 1997 21:00:44 -0800 Message-ID: <9712130157.AA48066.cygnus.gnu-win32@spider.uspnet.usp.br> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 3 DOT 32 DOT 19971208215231 DOT 007ee900 AT apci DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: shorti , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Cc: hgfernan AT usp DOT br On 8 Dec 97 at 21:52, shorti wrote: > hello all: > > ok - here's the deal: i have very limited experience with c, although i'm > figuring out the text-driven stuff fairly well. i would like to write > windows programs using my new found resources, but i know next to nothing > about API, integrating dll's, etc. does anyone know of any good > tutorials/references on win32 (or c in general) on the web? maybe if you > have nothing better to do over christmas holiday, you could write one? or > is it just easier for me to go out and buy a book? If you have a list of > links related to (c, win32) programming, it would be greatly appreciated.. > i'll compile it to a webpage somewhere... Hi! Concerning C, you got to read the founding fathers: Kernighan & Ritchie's The C Programming Language. Other interesting book, if a little out of date is Holub's The C Companion, that explains intuitively and in detail things about pointers et al. that we only learn after 10 years of C programming. :-) Concerning the Win32 API, DLLs etc., there's another book almost as good as K & R: it is Programming Windows 95, by Charles Petzold with Paul Yao. It was a classic for the first Windows (2.X & 3.X). Now it shows its age, but it is probably the best introduction to the subject available. Concerning Web sites, please take a look at the page Hello Windows!, at http://www.relisoft.com/win32/winnie.html by Reliable Software. The page http://www.relisoft.com/index.htm gives access to other interesting things at their site. Good links can be found at Webopaedia http://www.pcwebopedia.com/ and whatis.com http://www.whatis.com/ Regards, ++Hilton ------------------- Hilton Fernandes email: hgfernan AT usp DOT br hilton AT lsi www: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~hilton.html M. Sc. Student of Parallel Distributed Applications at LSI (Laboratory of Integrated Systems) University of S. Paulo - Brazil - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".