Re: Suggestion: A Getting Started FAQ
Re: Suggestion: A Getting Started FAQ
- Subject: Re: Suggestion: A Getting Started FAQ
- From: Angela Brett <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:52:26 +1300
> With all due respect Erik, has it dawned on you that finding this mailing
list is significantly more difficult than finding those other
resources? Maybe the problem is that those resources aren't particularly
Where would the FAQ go if not in this list ?
The obvious answer to that is in a file marked very prominently as an
important file to read, positioned so it's the first thing one sees
after inserting the Developer Tools CD, which mentions this list, the
archives of this list, and the other most useful sources of
information and perhaps the order in which they should be consulted
(i.e 'first make sure you know C, then read about Objective C,
then...). Anyone planning to develop with Cocoa could not fail to at
least see the icon, which is the most we can hope for since there's
never any way to guarantee that people will read things they're told
about.
There would probably have to be two such files, one for Carbon and
one for Cocoa, or perhaps just one file beginning with a few
sentences stating what the differences are and then split into the
two sections. Anyway, the form of the document isn't something I have
any views on at the moment, what I'm getting at is that an FAQ (or
links to FAQs) would be the most useful/accessible/obvious if it were
on the CD (or the disk image or whatever you get when you download
the developer tools.)
Boy will I look silly if it turns out there was such a prominently
placed document and I didn't read it. I don't have my CD handy to
check.
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Angela Brett email@hidden
http://acronyms.co.nz/angela
"We must believe in free will, we have no choice!" -- Isaac Bashevis Singer