

Yet, in addition to having written volumes about programming to the broad landscape of Windows frameworks in languages such C, Visual Basic and C#, Charles has written books on how to code for IBM’s OS/2 operating system as well as books such as Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software and The Annotated Turing that deal with the nature and history of computing. The book, in its many editions, was so common a reference among Windows programmers that it was simply called, Petzold.Ĭharles Petzold has been writing about Windows programming since there has been Windows. If you were a Windows programmer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, most likely you had a copy of Programming Windows by Charles Petzold on your bookshelf.
