Re: C'mon Apple! DECIDE!
Re: C'mon Apple! DECIDE!
- Subject: Re: C'mon Apple! DECIDE!
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 13:28:32 +0200
Hi Mark,
I will not comment on Carbon and WO, since I don't work with them and
since this is a Cocoa list...
On Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 07:22 , Mark Weinstein wrote:
1) I have been a software developer for a little over 20 years, and
never
in my life have I seen such poor documentation. I have attempted to
work
with Cocoa, Carbon and even WebObjects and have found that any
documentation
that I have found that was even worth reading was not from Apple. In
addition to the quality of the documentation, it is nearly impossible to
even find anything more than quick samples here and there. If people
are
being actively recruited as developers, why aren't they getting any
support
or training out of the recruiter?
The documentation Apple provides for Cocoa is a reference documentation
that works just fine for that purpose. Still, your opinion is not
uncommon from newcomers to the Cocoa camp - relax, give it some time,
and I promise you that things will very soon start to make sense! Cocoa
class- and method names are virtually self-documenting once you get
accustomed.
Apple also provides a lot of example code, some you'll find on your
local HD under /Developer/Examples, some on developer.apple.com - and it
is available for Cocoa and ProjectBuilder once you learn what to look
for... There is example code for virtually every class available from
either Apple or one of the major third party Cocoa dev sites.
Apple provides a few tutorials, but if you're struggling to understand
the basic concepts you should probably invest in one of the Cocoa books
released over the last year, there are quite a few - look through the
list archives for reviews and opinions about these. "Cocoa Programming
for Mac OS X" is a good one you can order through Amazon.
Regards,
j o a r
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