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Turbo Pascal came with reference manuals, but also with instructional books that taught you OO programming and Windows UI programming from scratch.

They must have been well-written; I didn't really have Internet access, so there was nowhere else to go if I got stuck. Though I was probably a much more determined learner back then.



Borland C++ came in a fucking chest of something like 40 800 page books. Books on OWL, books on the Win32 API, books on the Win16 API, lots of books.




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