Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks

Chapter 5Universal Windows Platform

When I was growing up, my family had a Windows computer. I remember lots of computing milestones on it. Games (Doom, the first Duke Nukem, Myst), connecting to the Internet (Netscape Navigator over a Winsock connection to a modem pool using my mom’s shell account at the university she worked for), cursing IRQ settings for new hardware—things like that. I remember how excited I was when Windows 95 came out, just because it looked so much better than Windows 3.1. A lot of my early development experience was on a Windows computer, too. I remember feeling smug because I ran Windows 2000 instead of the inferior home versions. I guess that I would say I learned programming on a Windows computer.

However, all of ...