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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Recommendations sought for programming in Windows 3 books
Summary: Petzold vs Norton/Yao
Keywords: books
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Date: 12 Feb 91 21:31:54 GMT
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In article <70616@microsoft.UUCP> bruceki@microsoft.UUCP (Bruce KING) writes:
>  Power Windows Programming Techniques by Paul Yao & Peter Norton is
>out right now.  I like it.  It's published by the Peter Norton folks,
>and so has Peter AND Paul's face on the cover.  

The grant I'm working on paid for both Petzold's book as well as the
Norton/Yao book. I prefer the Petzold style of writing. There are a
lot of similarities between the books, e.g. the way they lay out their
code (as opposed to the way that the Programmer's Guide in the SDK
lays out its stuff).

If your budget is one book, go for the Petzold book. If it can stretch
to two, buy both... There are things that each book talks about that
the other doesn't. For example, I prefer the child window discussion
in Norton/Yao, but Petzold does a much better job of file/I-O.

Please also remember that preferences for books is something that is
extremely subjective.

kartik

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