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Title: Petzold is stuck in a time-warp
Review: You really need to take a close look at this book before you buy it. I think a lot of innocent people are going to lose some serious money, just because of the "Petzold aura".Petzold's style hasn't changed a whit... even though he has migrated his code from C to C#, it's still the exact same stuff. Entire chapters dedicated to drawing curvey lines, and hand-painting fonts on a screen. You will not learn the C# language either... I repeat, this is not a tutorial.I've read both Programming Windows 3.1 and Programming Windows 95. They taught me the structure of Windows programming fine, but in a decade of programming, I've never done a thing that even closely resembles what Petzold does in his books.Programming is about forms, data, transformation, and storage, and there is nothing here along these lines. Please take one person's advice, and visit a bookstore before you take this plunge.
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