Charles Petzold

Charles Petzold ( born February 2, 1953 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA) is an American programmer and author of many books on various topics of programming under Microsoft Windows. In 1975 he obtained a Master of Science degree in mathematics at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Bibliography

• Programming Windows (Microsoft Press, 1988)
• Parts of the MS- DOS Encyclopedia (Microsoft Press, 1988)
• Programming the OS / 2 Presentation Manager (Microsoft Press, 1989 )
• Parts of the book Extending DOS (Addison Wesley, 1990)
• Programming Windows: The Microsoft Guide to Writing Applications for Windows 3 ( 2nd edition, Microsoft Press, 1990 )
• Programming Windows: The Microsoft Guide to Writing Applications for Windows 3.1 ( 3rd edition, Microsoft Press, 1992 )
• OS / 2 Presentation Manager Programming ( Ziff- Davis Press, 1994 )
• Programming Windows 95 ( 4th edition, Microsoft Press, 1996 )
• Programming Windows ( 5th edition, Microsoft Press, 1998 )
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software ( Microsoft Press, 1999 )
• Programming Microsoft Windows with C # ( Microsoft Press, 2001 )
• Programming Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Visual Basic. NET (Microsoft Press, 2002 )
• Programming in the Key of C # ( Microsoft Press, 2003 )
• Programming Microsoft Windows Forms (Microsoft Press, 2005 )
• Applications = Code Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Microsoft Press, 2006 )
• 3D Programming for Windows - Three -Dimensional Graphics Programming for the Windows Presentation Foundation (Microsoft Press, 2007 )
• Programming Windows Phone 7 - Microsoft Silverlight Edition (Microsoft Press, 2011 )
• Programming Windows Phone 7 - Microsoft XNA Framework Edition (Microsoft Press, 2011 )
• Programming Windows, Sixth Edition - Writing Windows 8 apps with C # and XAML (Microsoft Press, 2013)

In the German -speaking world, he is particularly known for the German translation of his book Programming Windows, originally Programming Windows, which is now published in the 5th edition. It is considered a standard work on the Windows API. In addition, he was and is responsible for various journals as a guest author, including PC Magazine and MSDN Magazine.

Miscellaneous

• Petzold carries the Microsoft Windows logo as a tattoo on the right upper arm.
• In a programming competition under the slogan " Storm the Gates" during a press event to introduce QuickBasic 2.0 in 1986, Petzold finished second behind Bill Gates. The task was a multitasking simulation under MS -DOS. Gates used a QuickBasic 2.0, while the remaining participants were able to choose their language freely. Gates won because QuickBasic contained a graphics library and was superior for the tasks of the Microsoft C used by Petzold.

• Computer scientist
• Americans
• Born in 1953
• Man