Re: Windows Programming Beginner's Guide
- Posted by Jim Brown <kelric at HOME.COM> Aug 12, 2000
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Dear God, if you write such a thing PLEASE let me know. I have been programming in PL/1 for years on Mainframes/Minis and I admit it. I just don't get windows at all. ----- Original Message ----- From: John Coonrod <jc at THP.ORG> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 10:24 AM Subject: Windows Programming Beginner's Guide > Based on communications between David Gay and me, I'd like to invite > recommendations for the following mini-project. > > Project proposal draft 1 > > Purpose: > > Create a Beginner's Guide to Windows Programming that enables DOS-type > programmers to make the conceptual leap to windows programming. > > Intended Results: > > 1. Get across the basic paradigm shift between procedural programming and > event-driven object-based programming with simplicity and clarity. > > 2. Make clear the basic concepts that underly the Win32lib elements - > without tying > people to specific implementations. > > 3. Promote a set of programming practices that will save people time and > encourage clarity, simplicity and code sharing. (Note - one downside of > Euphoria is that it not only makes programming easier - it makes bad > programming easier.) > > 4. Give people a strong leg-up on using examples and other people's > programs. > > 5. Contribute to the community Euphoria effort by keeping the style > consistent with the RDS documents. (Perhaps offer to rewrite the > win32lib.htm to match that style?) > > 6. Make the document so attractive that more people are pulled to do > programming. > > Any further suggestions? > > Is there a generally accepted place to put my first draft, or should I put > it on my own website and let people look at it there? > > ---------------- > Dr. John Coonrod, Vice President, jc at thp.org > The Hunger Project, 15 East 26th Street, NY, NY 10010 www.thp.org >