Windows 98 Programming from the Ground Up

By Herbert Schildt

This guide provides in-depth coverage and a thorough explanation of the Windows 95 programming environment. It gets people through the basics, so that they can focus on doing sophisticated, real-world... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0078823064
• ISBN13: 9780078823060
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Length: 809 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 2.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

I Have a Job because of this Book

This summer I am working as an intern(paid!) and am making a windows GUI Interface program that acts like a debugging environment and displays graphs. This book is the only windows programming book I have and use. This book is the reason I have this job! The book is an excellent book for begining windows programmers. It explains most of the code in detail, and if you ever need anymore information you can just go on to MSDN. I have been able to accomplish everything from simple GUI program, graphing out data, multithreading, dialog windows, and common controls with this book. I reccomend this book to anybody with at least a grasp of C/C++ and a desire to learn the win32 api. And just for your information I am 17 years old.

The Best Way To Step Into Windows Programming

This book is, by far, the greatest book that teaches how to program windows applications. This book takes you, the reader, through each (basic) aspect of programming in windows- accompanying each concept with a well thought-out explanation that is very easy for any programmer to read. If you are interested in stepping into windows programming, this is the best book that you can buy. If you're leaning towards game programming, I suggest learning OOP C++, then buy this book. Once you're done with this book, you'll be well on your way to learning OpenGL or Direct X!

Windows Made Easy

Herbert Schlidt hits another home run! If you are already knowledgeable about the C or C++ syntax this book is the best chance you have to learn how to do Windows. In this book Mr. Schlidt promotes the idea of using a pre supplied Windows API skeleton with the programmer simply managing message handling between his program code and one or two Windows API functions. I believe Mr. Schlidt's idea is far superior to the OWL or MFC. Assuming you read the book and follow the style set forth you will find your self with code that can be easily tested, debugged and understood. Another big plus you will find is that you can use the C++ Standard Library rather than having to scramble to learn about a lot of compiler supplied classes which are poorly described and scatter you code among several files. The books also provides extensive coverage of the entire API, providing examples of how to best handle situations like repainting the screen , dialog check boxes etc. Special note: If you run Windows 95 all of the examples I experimented with compiled and ran just fine.

Concise, easy, and useable...

I bought both of the MFC and Windows 98 Programming from the Ground Up books at the same. They are nearly indentical in content. This fact is great for a begginning Window's programmer (like me), but not so great for those on a budget. The Windows 98 book has more subjects, but is written using the 'traditional' Windows programming methods. The MFC book (of course) uses MFC and therefore is the much easier way to program for Windows. I never use the examples in the book 'as is'. The author writes his code examples and descriptions of the code well enough, that I can use the examples as guides to use in my projects. While neither book should be considered a complete reference, both provide enough information that I am constantly flipping through them to look for examples (which the MS Visual Studio does not show very well.) I bought SAMS' Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6 in 24 Hours before these two books, which mainly teaches how to use the compiler. I previously had over five years experience in DOS programming with the Borland C++ compilers. In a about four months and these three books I feel that I know everything that I need to know to write any 'common' Windows 9x application using MS Visual C++ 6.

Very suitable for beginer (minimum understanding of c/c+)

Thank you for Herbert Schildt for his deep and claer explanation of Windows programming given in the book. For those who just want to start to learning windows programming should be glad to be guilded by his explanation!!!!