Re: What is the status on the New Cocoa 2.0 Books?
Re: What is the status on the New Cocoa 2.0 Books?
- Subject: Re: What is the status on the New Cocoa 2.0 Books?
- From: Jeff LaMarche <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:22:26 -0400
On Mar 12, 2008, at 11:03 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
(Actually, the current docs are quite good, all things considered.
Back in the day, the system documentation used to consist of badly-
Xeroxed copies of napkins that the programmers had scrawled some
instructions on, while suffering from exhaustion and caffeine
psychosis. And the developer program charged you $1200 a year for
those, and didn't even give you a damn binder to put them in. And we
lapped it up!)
Actually, I've been spending a lot of time reading Apple documentation
since last Thursday or so, and I was just thinking that Apple's
technical documentation has gotten very, very good - we're downright
spoiled, especially all the documentation for that new thing we're not
allowed to discuss here yet but could for a few minutes the other day.
But it is what it is - it's professional API documentation targeted at
third party developers who don't need much handholding on basic
concepts. There will always be a market for good books that take the
newcomer by the hand and explain things more slowly and and use a lot
of examples to drive home important points. Not a very big market,
perhaps, in the case of Cocoa or Objective-C books, but a market
nonetheless.
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