How to proceed with learning to code Windows desktop applications?

[Kagamin]

On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 22:55:12 UTC, I Lindström wrote:
> I've been Googling a ton these past few days for some kind of a 
> book or a course on how to code desktop applications for 
> Windows, but either there isn't one, or it's very well hidden.

"Programming Windows" by Charles Petzold, 5th edition, 1998, The 
definitive developer's guide to the Windows 98 API. The book goes 
through the classic application development cycle and explanation 
of features.