🚀 Welcome to the WinAPI Wormhole!
Hey there am Nick and I welcome you as my Windows API adventurer!
You've just teleported into my WinAPI goldmine, you're the lucky few who've found me. Buckle up! Don't skip, read this first. Please.
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My Background:
🕵️♂️ The Quest for WinAPI Knowledge
Picture this: There I was, lost in the digital deserts, searching for knowledge mines containing organized Windows API wisdom. 🔍
What did I find? Just a bunch of dusty ancient scrolls — outdated books, broken links, and long-forgotten Chinese and Russian forums. 📚 Painful stuff. There was literally no one breaking this down for free in a way that made sense. And honestly — how are we supposed to master operating systems if WinAPI itself is locked behind arcane knowledge walls?
So I tried opening tools like IDA Pro and Ghidra (which I still barely understand), and suddenly I was like:
“Wait… Isn’t this the same stuff from that old Charles Petzold book on WinAPI?”
Then it hit me: While I was struggling with CreateWindow, there were 17-year-old reverse engineering gods in underground Russian and Chinese forums casually posting cracked slot machine binaries, porting code to WinAPI like it was a hobby.
Meanwhile, I’m sitting there thinking:
“Bro... what the hell?! These guys and girls are out here chewing IDA for breakfast.”
I decided to venture into the seas of outdated documentation and cryptic Chinese forums to bring you this treasure trove. 💎
Why? Because learning shouldn't cost you that much effort. There should be somewhere you can just visit and get all of it. But there wasn't.
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This repo is for all of you out there:
Struggling students 📚
Curious coders 🧐
Bootcamp dropouts 🏃♂️💨
Anyone who's ever yelled "WHY ISN'T THERE A DECENT TUTORIAL FOR THIS?!" at 3 AM 🌙😤
I've poured my blood, sweat, and tears (mostly tears) into this project. It's my gift to you - the next generation of Windows programmers.
Am 24, and am in no way a master at this stuff. 🧙♂️✨
Am here to keep the flame of low-level programming burning bright!
What's in store?
💻 Colorful code: (WinAPI is often seen as black and white; I mention it, and someone already visualizes MS-DOS. And since you like sleep, colored and image-filled notes won't let that happen...)
📚 Notes that actually make sense: (I know, shocking! Clear notes, explained to the core.)
🎢 A rollercoaster ride through the weirdest parts of Windows that you'd never even thought existed.
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Prerequisites and contributions:
C/C++ programming knowledge. (I already have a C repo if you don’t mind starting there).
A love for low-level madness, unless you're a framework fanatic.
🚫 Prohibited: Caffeine (Colorful notes need no caffeine; I promise you won’t sleep.)
🚫 No contributions needed! Unless you're feeling generous. I accept both pull requests, cash for pizzas. 🍕
There's a lot of code and notes, I've tried my best to remove API's and stuff, but If I accidentally forgot any private stuff, please tell me. I'll get it fixed.
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License:
🆓 It's all free, no licenses.
Fork it, clone it, print it out. Go wild!
Remember: Every master was once a disaster. Rome wasn't built in a day, neither does a good WinAPI programmer.
Enjoy, my people!👊
Thanks for dropping by!
