Re: Docs
Re: Docs
- Subject: Re: Docs
- From: Phillip Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:34:06 -0400
On 8/23/01 11:03 AM, "Chuck Toporek" <email@hidden> wrote:
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"Learning Cocoa" could be better, but for most, it serves the general
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purpose of introducing people to Cocoa and the developer tools. One of
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the things I'm working on right now is reviewing and editing the
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existing book and trying to find a new author to work with me on a
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revision to make it better.
Even finding a person to type in the examples and verify that they compile
would be a GIANT step in the right direction. I buy a lot of O'Reilly
books, both for work and home. Obviouly, I usually like them or I'd have
stopped years ago...but I feel like a sucker for having spent money on this
one. It gives me the feeling that someone saw an opportunity to "Make Money
Fast" and rushed it out the door with the least attention to quality and
content possible.
On a more positive note, I'd love to see a Cocoa programming book structured
like the Perl Cookbook. To me, it's a highlight of the O'Reilly catalog
because of it's emphasis on solutions to actual problems, detailed
explanations of *why* things work, why others don't, optional alternatives
for particular situations, logical chapter structure, absence of fluff,
absence of redundant information copied from other sources, decent
cross-references to other books and 'man' pages....
Did I mention I quite like the Perl Cookbook? :-)
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