Posted 2004-05-31T11:43:00+01:00 in bookreview
Charles Petzold, Microsoft Press, 157231995X
This book is approximately 1500 pages, and that is too much. Way too much. It is too heavy to handle; You have to read it sitting at a table.
All source code is listed in the text, which explains why it needs 1500 pages to explain the basics of programming Windows GUI applications.
The book covers a lot of topics, and Petzold has a nice writing style. However, that just can’t compensate for the feeling that I am completely lost in this book: Too many pages to ever find my way back to that one page where I thought “Oh, right, that’s how it works”.