Re: NSArrayController question
Re: NSArrayController question
- Subject: Re: NSArrayController question
- From: mmalc crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:39:38 -0700
On Sep 23, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Frank Bettger wrote:
Thanks for the link, but it's no help to me. Apple's reference docs
have
Cocoa-savvy people as their target audience, not newbies like me.
As has been said so many times on this forum -- most recently by Chris
Hanson at <http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2007/Sep/msg00956.html
> -- technologies such as bindings and Core Data are not for
"newbies". If you don't have sufficient experience and understanding
of fundamental Cocoa design patterns to use them, then if you get
frustrated you have no-one but yourself to blame. The documentation
is *not* going to make itself less useful to those who have followed
an appropriate and recommended path to learning by trying to cater to
those who have not.
If, on the other hand, you have requisite experience and find the
documentation inadequate or confusing, then by all means file a bug.
And when you post a question here, make it clear that you have read
the documentation and say what you found confusing -- which leads to:
I know that some Cocoa-savvy people get irritated at newbies because
they
can't formulate their questions succinctly enough or because they ask
questions that from the experts point of view is only noise and
bandwidth
waste.
No, this is not the case. All list members are less likely to be
helpful when any others post messages that don't adhere to the
guidelines <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> or <http://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html
>.
But I think that a forum like this should allow the full spectrum,
from novices to experts, to participate.
It does, and it's offensive to those who give freely and generously of
their time to help others to suggest otherwise.
mmalc
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