Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon?
Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon?
- Subject: Re: Any new/updated Cocoa books soon?
- From: Robert Tillyard <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:35:44 +0000
On 25 Jan 2004, at 4:55 am, Scott Anguish wrote:
I'm not even sure why this is still being discussed.
Apple isn't being a bad guy here. I write about Cocoa every day for
work, and writing the same material over again, for Sams, isn't
appropriate. Not would it be fun or interesting.
And, the stuff that I write now you guys get for free. :-)
I produce significantly more documentation now full-time than I did
with the book.
I'm assuming that you're producing the technical documentation that can
be accessed via Cocoa Browser or PB/XCode.
What I miss as a newbie is how-to and tutorial style documentation. The
class documentation often doesn't mean much to me, I tend to use the
books (I bought them all) as examples. If I want to know how to add an
About Box I'll know roughly where to look for that.
It sounds like the Cocoa market is too small to make a book that
doesn't lose money, but without these books the market won't grow. I
wonder if an electronic book would be able to make the revenue needed
to make the project worthwhile for someone to do.
I'd love to know how to use technologies like BlueTooth but I can't see
how-to's or tutorials on that showing up in books.
I'd like to thank all of the authors of Cocoa books as they have made a
difference to my world, I'm still struggling a bit but I can the books
are still a big help and got me a few steps up the ladder.
Regards, Rob.
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