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Every tutorial begins with the classical "Hello World" program, that I think you all are familiar with. A program that writes Hello World on the screen. But hey... Why on earth would anyone want to do that? My point is: Why does all tutorials (at least the ones I found) teach you how to do things in DOS? I don´t want to do ANYTHING in DOS! I my opinion, DOS is dead... (Hope I don´t offend anyone...) I just love Windows, whith all those nice OK and Cancel buttons... I want to write my programs in that platform.
I hope you can help me out here. Is there any reason for me att all to continue learning from this book and those tutorials? None of them covers anything about Windows. Sure, I have to learn to crawl before I start to walk, but am I crawling the right direction??? I just don´t want to waste my time... Perhaps I am a little impatient, but hey: That´s just how i am :-)
I can understand why you are impatient! BUT... stick with learning C or C++ before trying to do anything significant with Windows. If you don''t master C or C++ first, you will just be setting yourself up for discouragement and failure.
By the way, C is a programming language and Windows is an operating system (although I agree that there is a little more to it than that). Although you may think that you are programming in DOS, you could be doing almost the exact same thing in UNIX or some other OS.
C (or C++) is an essential foundation for everything that you do in Windows. Believe me (and I speak from many years of experience) you will never regret getting a good foundation in C before tackling Windows code.