Re: ANN: Step by step introduction to programming with Cocoa
Re: ANN: Step by step introduction to programming with Cocoa
- Subject: Re: ANN: Step by step introduction to programming with Cocoa
- From: Harry <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 00:11:53 -0700 (PDT)
There are also a couple of wiki-book projects on
Learning Cocoa.
Here are links:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming_Mac_OS_X_with_Cocoa_for_beginners
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Cocoa
> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:33:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Erik Buck <email@hidden>
> Subject: ANN: Step by step introduction to
programming with Cocoa
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> I have started a guided introduction to Cocoa
programming at the
> Cocoadev wiki site: http://www.cocoadev.com/
>
> The goal is to provide an sequence in which to
learn Cocoa and
> links to the basic information. My hope is that by
just stating a
> step by step sequence of topics, users will be able
to navigate
> through the huge number of concepts in an orderly
fashion.
>
>
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CocoaPrerequisites
> http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CocoaStepOne
> http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CocoaStepTwo
>
> This is a wiki, and it isn't even _my_ wiki. By
all means,
> contribute to the material.
>
This is a generous act on your part.
It is likely to require a lot of time and effort.
I will be glad to contribute as time allows and my
knowledge of the
system increases.
It provides motivation for keeping a record of
difficulties
encountered and resolved (and perhaps also ones that
have not been
resolved?)
I suggested some time back (A documetation suggestion
19 May 2008
13:31:30) but no one took me up on it, the idea of
seeing if Apple
would so to speak "donate" a copy of their
documentation so it could
be used as the basis for a wiki.
That documentation is a tremendous resource, a basis
to which could
be added examples, explanations etc., to make it more
generally
accesible, illuminate the small things that
occasionally impede
understanding.
Actually the idea was to include a text box at the end
of each
section where people could post queries regarding that
section, e.g.
questions about something they did not understand or
something which
did not quite work as expected etc and which would
then cause an
email containing that query to be sent to a discussion
list, e.g.
like the present one, where people's replies would
then be included
in the section the query came from. This would give
the thing the
structure of an FAQ.
I would keep it all very simple and very basic so it
stays managable.
If useful it would acquire its own dynamic.
The idea has virtues
1. We discover exactly where the difficulties lie.
2. There is a build up of information concerning a
specific problem
all in the same place.
3. People are encouraged to explore the documentation
4. The documentation becomes up to date, errors are
corrected etc.
5. There is little extra effort expended in providing
the answers
than would be spent doing so on this list
6. The context of the question and the reply is that
much more clear
7. It could result in a pretty good piece of
documentation.
I thought i would just throw the idea into the ring
again
all the best
Julius
http://juliuspaintings.co.uk
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