Re: Docs
Re: Docs
- Subject: Re: Docs
- From: "Michael A. Crawford" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:59:20 -0700
On 8/23/01 6:53, "Chuck Toporek" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Ondra Cada wrote:
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> James,
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>>>>>>> James Bredijk (JB) wrote at Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:19:29 -0400:
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> JB> Speaking of the "Docs" - or lack there of - are there any books
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> JB> available (with a TOC, naturally) that will break down the API into
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> JB> manageable sections??
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> If you can manage waiting, the Garfinkel/Mahoney's "Cocoa Programming --
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> Step One" or whatever the reincarnation of the original "NeXTSTEP Programming
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> -- Step One" should be just great. At least, the original was!
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> Simson Garfinkel should be on the list, he might guess why the book will be
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Hi there,
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I'm the Mac editor here at O'Reilly. I'm not Simson's editor, but I know
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he and Michael are working on updating their NeXTSTEP book. I'll leave
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it to Simson and Michael to comment more on their book.
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On another note, there does seem to be a serious amount of information
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pain going on here, and I'll agree that better documentation (be it free
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online docs or printed material) is needed. The big thing I'm seeing
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right now (at least in this thread) is that everyone seems to be digging
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for an API reference. Correct? If that's the case, is there anyone here
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on this list (Ondra?) who might be interested in writing a "Cocoa
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Foundation Classes" book? This can probably be built up from existing
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Apple documentation and expanded into something that's much more useful
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(and accessible) to everyone.
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Any takers?
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Meantime, if there are other books you think we should be publishing,
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let me know.
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Chuck
On the question of other books you should be publishing, how about a MacOS X
Device Driver book, complete with large chapters on USB and Firewire.
Another book on a related topic would be MacOS X KEXT and NKE programming.
-Michael
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