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Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon?
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Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon?


  • Subject: Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon?
  • From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:17:21 -0500

On Jan 26, 2004, at 6:11 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2004, at 5:35 AM, Robert Tillyard wrote:
>> It sounds like the Cocoa market is too small to make a book that
>> doesn't lose money, but without these books the market won't grow.

I can see your point. Let me clarify one thing though. The problem
isn't that the market is too small. The problem is that some
publishers are less effective at getting their books marketed.

Also, the difference in the market for beginner vs intermediate books
14 months ago was significant.

<snip>
> Apple should also bring back "develop". How many Mac developers
> adopted new technologies after reading a short, clear article by the
> actual creators of those technologies? It was before most of the
> Cocoa crowd's time, but it was sort of like Microsoft's MSDN Journal,
> only without ads, with a whole lot of class, with little to no
> marketing fluff, and with consistently solid technical content.

It'd be an interesting bit of feedback to provide to Apple (tutorials
on Cocoa programming on the ADR site).

>
>> I'd love to know how to use technologies like BlueTooth but I can't
>> see how-to's or tutorials on that showing up in books.
>
> Some Cocoa developers write tutorials on these kinds of topics, time
> permitting, and publish them online at places like Stepwise,
> MacDevCenter, CocoaDev, CocoaDevCentral, etc.
>

Yes, agreed, 100%.

Preferably in that order.. :-)

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 >Any new/updated Cocoa books soon? (From: amy <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon? (From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon? (From: Michael Monscheuer <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon? (From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon? (From: Robert Tillyard <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon? (From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>)

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