Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon?
Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon?
- Subject: Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon?
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:41:26 -0500
On Jan 26, 2004, at 6:35 AM, Robert Tillyard wrote:
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On 25 Jan 2004, at 4:55 am, Scott Anguish wrote:
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> I'm not even sure why this is still being discussed.
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> Apple isn't being a bad guy here. I write about Cocoa every day for
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> work, and writing the same material over again, for Sams, isn't
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> appropriate. Not would it be fun or interesting.
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> And, the stuff that I write now you guys get for free. :-)
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> I produce significantly more documentation now full-time than I did
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> with the book.
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I'm assuming that you're producing the technical documentation that
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can be accessed via Cocoa Browser or PB/XCode.
Well... our group produces the Cocoa and Tools documentation. I'm
merely one cog of many on that wheel. :-)
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What I miss as a newbie is how-to and tutorial style documentation.
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The class documentation often doesn't mean much to me, I tend to use
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the books (I bought them all) as examples.
Our documentation is divided up into three parts:
- Reference (class spec sheets like
<
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSAffineTransform.html>)
- Concepts (conceptual material about topics <
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/DrawBasic/
index.html>
- Tasks (specific task documentation
<
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
URLLoadingSystem/Tasks/UsingNSURLDownload.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/
20001839>
We do have some tutorial style docs, but not a significant amount.
Tasks cover the how-to aspect of things, and I think those are my
favorite to write.
Still, please, provide the feedback (see below) as it's crucial to
getting what you want.
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If I want to know how to add an About Box I'll know roughly where to
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look for that.
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Documentation feedback is very much welcome. It's best to send it to
email@hidden, or provide it here
<
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/techpubsfeedback.html>. This
puts it directly into the hands of those who make decisions. (as I
said, me cog.. :-)
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