how do i learn win32 for c++?

i want to plot a graph from scratch and setpixel sucks dick. any good books to look at? msdn encylopedia is way too large.

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is there anyway to create like a virtual pipe/console in windows or dos? im already nigger piping (creating in.txt, system("xxx.exe < in.txt > out.txt"), then reading out.txt) another .exe to do some of the calculations