title: How relevant is Win32 programming to modern professionals?
body: <p>As a big fan of Charles Petzold's books <em>Code</em> and <em>The Annotated Turing</em> I came across his book <em>Programming Windows</em> which teaches Win32 programming in C. I am a freshman computer science student who learned C first, but I use C# and .NET for Windows programming now, so I was wondering if Win32 is still relevant to professional Windows programs. Would it be worth it to me, as a student who wants to program Windows applications, to learn the Win32 API to the depth that the book covers?</p>