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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Use Python+Psyco. For graphics, use wxWidgets, I think I saw chart widgets somewhere. Or output something you can then feed GNUplot or something like that, I believe. Or do as I do, poor man's charts (AKA nigger charts):

print '%20s' % label, '#' * int(value * 55 / max_value)