How to proceed with learning to code Windows desktop applications?

[Kagamin]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 05:47:11 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> It's like saying "everything you need is assembly language" 
> when talking about languages and compilers. Pure WinAPI is a 
> cruel advice for a novice.

He's not a novice: he wrote console applications that pushed 
through complexity limit. Writing complex GUI application in 
winapi is cruel, but for hello world it's fine and gives good 
understanding of principles. To use GUI frameworks one must 
understand both underlying principles and abstractions rolled on 
top of them.