Re: Just Learned ANSI C, what I should learn next? Options

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"Andrew Chang" <laplacezhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9ac5c36c-6990-41d8-8e08-efb1c6f51b0a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I just finished studying A First Book of ANSI C and I believed that I
have been good at programming with the main() structure method.
However, I have no idea what I could do next. It is impossible that I
always program with command console from now on.
Could anyone give me some advices? Thank you very much!

You can write Windows programs in C using the book Programming Windows (5th edition) by Charles Petzold. It is the classic reference. This way of writing Windows programs is not very productive nowadays. But it is highly instructive, showing you how Windows really works.

You could take a different road or the next step and learn C++, and then learn Windows programming using the MFC C++ library. That is the focus of this newsgroup. C++ and MFC give you much more to study, and will be confusing for a while if you have not yet learned how Windows really works, but the end result is quite a bit more productive than working in C.

--
Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]

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