Learn DOS or Win32 first?
No right answer to this, but here's MO.
Stick w/ Windows only if that's what you're most interested in doing. DOS
programming is mostly sequential in nature. Windows programming is not. It
*can* be hard to get used to event-driven Windows programming after learning
DOS programming. It shouldn't be, but some people seem to have a problem
figuring it out.
With the Win32lib, *I* don't think it's any harder to learn basic Windows
programming. If you didn't have the Win32lib, you would absolutely go with
DOS programming first, since programming Windows, for beginners, without
some help with the API is a bear. A very big, hairy, brown, smelly, hungry
bear. That hasn't eaten in 2 months.
With Win32lib, though, it's very simple for the simple programs you will
learn with. You can let the IDE create the framework for you, or just modify
some existing programs to get the framework. Then it's easier than using
something like C++ Builder or Delphi. Well, almost. At some point it will
be.
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