Re: Request for Authors: Focused Cocoa Topic Books
Re: Request for Authors: Focused Cocoa Topic Books
- Subject: Re: Request for Authors: Focused Cocoa Topic Books
- From: Cem Karan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:13:48 -0400
If the books were well written fascicles, I would be interested in
something like this. I really like Aaron Hillegass's Cocoa
Programming for Mac OS X, but even the second edition is a little out
of date at this point, mostly because the technology keeps changing
so fast. The tricky part is that they really would be fascicles;
that is, there would be some dependence between the various books.
If I had to buy 1 core book (or 2-3 max), and then all the other ones
were independent of one another, I would be interested in going this
route, as I could learn what I need to in order to get the job done.
If they were all fully interdependent, requiring me to buy 47 books
to get anywhere, then I'd just be irritated, and not bother with any
of them. Also, PDF is good, but dead tree has its place, so you
might want to offer both.
Just my US $0.02,
Cem Karan
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:01:31 -0400, Daniel Jalkut wrote:
I think the big problem here is the money equation. A good author
(such as yourself) has to be passionate enough about the topics to
write a book that will still not make a great deal of money.
I wonder if taking a cue from the 37 Signals folks is a good idea. I
feel like many of these "focused topics" could sell well as
downloadable PDFs for, say, $9.95 per download.
Daniel
On Apr 23, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Erik Buck wrote:
Off the top of my head, either I or someone else should write the
following:
Mac OS X Graphics:
Core Image
Core Graphics
Core Animation
Quartz Composer
QTKit
Integration with iChat
OpenGL integration with Core
Resolution independence
Color calibration
Lots of examples including games and visualization
Cocoa Design Patterns
The GoF patterns in Cocoa/Objective-C
Patterns introduced with Core
Patterns changed by Objective-C 2.0
Anti-patterns
Cocoa for Scripting and dynamic languages
Applescript
Ruby
Python
Tcl
F-Script
Leopard features
Scripting Bridge allows you to automatically build "glue" code to
access a scriptable application with standard Objective-C method
calls.
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