Re: Documentation Newbie Blah, blah, blah
Re: Documentation Newbie Blah, blah, blah
- Subject: Re: Documentation Newbie Blah, blah, blah
- From: Sam Goldman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 19:53:10 -0800
I think that more example code would be great. Although now I have gotten
used to it, I had a lot of trouble with syntax. I really think that my
problem was that I went from zero to cocoa in a single leap. People should
remember this: "little steps"
I am still confronting this problem.
- Sam
On 11/9/01 7:01 PM, "Scott Anguish" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 06:39 PM, Brian Hook wrote:
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> Okay everybody, let's chill the hell out. Erik has done a lot for the
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> community, both writing technical papers and helping out scads of people
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> on this mailing list.
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> Erik: I think what most of us newbies are taking issue with is the
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> implication that we're lazy (i.e. we "refuse" to learn Cocoa the "hard"
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> way). We're not, and the specific reasons many of us are having
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> problems vary (as you point out), but in the end it just comes down to
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> one thing:
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Knowing Erik, I don't think for a minute that he meant that as a
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massive generalization.
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Infact, it could probably be taken an narrowed directly into two
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small particle fields.
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A persistant user who NEVER looks up details, and instead whines
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about how the documentation is dumb.... this goes back months and
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months, and it was a post of this type that seems at the root of this
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particular rant.
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second, the same questions being asked again, and again, and
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again. As a prime example it must have been four times in the last week
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alone that the same question has been asked about how to make a document
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app not start with an untitled document. Each time it was answered..
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and yet it was ask again anyways.
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I've offered on a number of occassions to set up an FAQ for the
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macosx-dev group, soliciting FAQs, but get none.
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So.. once again.. send FAQs (with answers if possible) to
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email@hidden
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I don't see the experts here saying 'god, what a dumb question'.
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He do however see them (and myself) getting frustrated by those who
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NEVER look anywhere, always blame the documentation.
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It woudl be GREAT if there was more sample code, with better
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indexing of it. This is the type of thing that I'd LOVE to have a
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full-time gig doing.. (Ron? You listening?)
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