Advanced Windows
by Jeffrey Richter · first published 1995
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…it to be like it was in 1998. Want to learn how to program for Windows 95, 98, or NT back then? Buy Programming Windows 5th edition by Charles Petzold, read it, and you are most of the way there. Add Advanced Windows by Jeffrey Richter if you need more lower level knowledge. If you needed to support Win 3.1, you had Petzold's Programming Windows 3.1 for that. (...and Petzold's Programming the OS/2 Presentation Manager…
on “Microsoft Project Reunion: an evolution of the Windows developer platform” ↗> Frankly on windows this is AFAIK a mostly-unheard-of technique. No one does mapping. This must be incorrect. Jeffrey Richter's advanced windows, a very widespread win32 book, introduced this technique to a LOT of developers, just when windows was the hot stuff for programmers. I don't think I've seen a win32 code base >100 Kloc without mapping.…
on “Mio – Cross-platform header-only C++11 library for memory-mapped file IO” ↗Some of my most enjoyable programming involved writing high performance multithreaded socket services with a copy of Advanced Windows at my side (back when tech books were relevant). I do have a certain amount of nostalgia for the days when all programming was pretty much "close to the machine". Now we spend our time gluing frameworks…
on “Why C++ Is Not "Back"” ↗…fixed the formatting) Technical books: 1. Windows NT Device Driver Book, The: A Guide for Programmers: http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Device-Driver-Book-Programmers/dp/0131844741/ref=tmm_pap_title_1 2. Advanced Windows by Jeffrey Richter: http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Windows-Jeffrey-Richter/dp/1572315482/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267856585&sr=1-1 3. Handbook of Computer Communication Standard, Vol 1: The Open…
on “Tell HN: Free books for HN members” ↗Reminds me of stuff like "Advanced Windows 95 Programming" by Jeffrey Richter
on “Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS” ↗…read at the beginning of my career as a developer", the closest for me is probably The Pragmatic Programmer. Not The Tao Te Ching (huh?), not Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (really now?), not Advanced Windows (that I did read near the beginning of my career as a Windows C++ programmer), not any of The Little/Seasoned/Reasoned Schemer (all of which I read and I had tremendous fun with). IMHO, this sounds more…
on “Influential books on Computer Science and programming” ↗…Applications for Windows 2000" by Jeffrey Richter and Jason D. Clark. Richter also wrote "Windows via C/C++", which was previously titled "Programming Applications for Windows 2000" (4th edition) or "Advanced Windows" (3rd and earlier editions). I realise these books are now very old (17 years old for "Windows via C/C++" and 25 years for "Programming Server-Side Applications") but really, the Windows API hasn't changed…
on “Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a Windows Systems programming book?” ↗