Thread: Api

You can programm for the Win32 API in most any language you wish. Personally, i wouldn't go for a book if you're just starting, it'd start with a simple tutorial and then move from there.

This is probably the best one i've found so far, easy to understand and it's still being updated: http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/

You can also go to #winprog on EFnet if you need some advice or help.

does this matter

Far from it. It makes your study of the win32 api easier.You can concentrate on the api itself rather than trying to pervert it into a more object oriented framework. C++ is only a superset of C so understanding the code will not be difficult. I recommend this book a lot.

will i have to use c to program with the API

No not at all. But it may be best while learning the api. When you get reasonably familiar with programming for windows techniques and api then you could move on to MFC which will give you a much more object oriented look at win32. MFC is an application framework. You can imagine it as a set of wrapper classes for the api. It is far from complete and as such you often have to use the api to get the job done.And because of the time you spent with Petzold you will know how to do things in pure api when you have to. If you skip learning the api I promise you that you will regret it the minute you try to do something that is not covered by MFC. The best book that I have read for learning MFC is :-
Programming windows with MFC by Jeff Prosise.

Originally posted by Stoned_Coder
If you skip learning the api I promise you that you will regret it the minute you try to do something that is not covered by MFC.

Isn't that the truth....