Re: [OT] "Cocoa in a Nutshell" is great!
Re: [OT] "Cocoa in a Nutshell" is great!
- Subject: Re: [OT] "Cocoa in a Nutshell" is great!
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 03:43:46 -0500
On Jan 5, 2004, at 2:23 AM, Oleg Svirgstin wrote:
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Still there is NO book I would love my best: imagine a multivolume
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Cocoa
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Encyclopaedia, a conceptual bible with a large complete but detailed
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reference section. Every Cocoa book I have seen so far is full of "this
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topic is outside the scope of our book" at the most exciting places...
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:&\
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a third party reference would be just too hard to keep up to date.
the scope of it would be massive, and the fact that new APIs come along
make it more difficult.
books take an insane length of time to write, and it's much harder to
write them externally than it is for Apple internally, at least
Reference wise. The lead time for a book makes it difficult to ensure
that you are covering the latest API, and there is no method of
updating a book that gives a good experience (outside of online
publishing only).
You're probably better off making specific feature requests of the
documentation, and buying a laser printer with Duplex printing support.
(not to say that external books aren't important, even crucial to the
success of the APIs/platform, but reference wise, that's a different
ballgame)
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