Just wondered how you guys learned the Windows API. I'm reading Programming Windows, Fifth Edition by Charles Petzold right now. So far it seems to be a pretty decent book as far as programming goes.

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...

Charlie Petzold was one of the pioneer Windows development writers, along with Paul Yao and a few others. I didn't write my first Windows development book until 1992, and by then Charlie's books were ...