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Tom Grein (zap@navaho.eel.ufl.edu) wrote:
> I work for a company that is preparing to port a DOS product out to Win 3.1.  We are going to get the SDK docs.  However, are these docs good enough to get started with Win 3.1 programming.
>  
> I would like some other suggestions for Win 3.1 programming.  I have heard that Petzold's book is good.  
>  
> Any other suggestions for documentation and how to get started with the Win 3.1 programming would be GREATLY apprectiated.
>  
> Thomas Grein
> zap@sioux.eel.ufl.edu
> 
> 
Hold the presses!  There a more books of this kind appearing all the time.
The MS books will set you back about $250 if bought separately from the SDK
whereas for $39.95 SAMS and QUE both publish comprehensive reference texts for Windows 3.1
programmers.  Just yesterday I saw the SAMS book covering Borland C++ v.31
(with AF) and Windows programming.  Its a good one.  I wish it had been
available 6 months ago.

Choices: buy Borland C++ v3.1 with AF and use the docs with that. You get
a powerful Windows based development system.  Buy extra docs from Computer
City et al., getting the SAMS or QUE books.

Get MS C++ v7.0, which has a ton of books with it (say 3 cu. ft......), but
then you only have a DOS development environment, though you can develop
Windows programs with it (obviously).  Same comment above for buying extra
books, with the note that Computer City locally sells some of the MS stuff.

One top recommendation: beg borrow or steal "C++ Tutorial" from the MS set.
Truly an excellent beginner's guide to C++.  

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