Re: Thoughts on productivity
Re: Thoughts on productivity
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on productivity
- From: Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:32:53 -0400
>>I think you missed a step when learning Cocoa. A great way to start is
with something like Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass
No, working through the Hillegass books was the first thing we did- first
the current edition for Swift, then the previous one for Objective-C. We
also read through every other book in existence about Cocoa, before even
starting to code.
That may have flattened the learning curve. We started by programming with
nibs and bindings, as the books teach. Then we gradually discovered that it
was very hard to scale it up to a large working app. Moving as much as
possible from nibs to code solved a lot of problems.
Casey McDermott
TurtleSoft.com
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:47 AM Richard Charles <email@hidden>
wrote:
>
> > On Oct 24, 2019, at 7:04 AM, Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev <
> email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to fix this stuff?
>
> > For the rest, Apple really needs to listen to developers more.
>
> Some random thoughts.
>
> Before September 2014 the developer documentation was excellent. Excellent
> online documentation with downloadable and searchable pdfs. Now all pdfs
> are gone and online documentation is like art on display in a museum. Great
> to look at but not very usable.
>
> I think you missed a step when learning Cocoa. A great way to start is
> with something like Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass. It
> has lots of examples to reinforce what you are learning.
>
> Hopefully the Feedback Assistant will bring better results than the Bug
> Reporter.
>
> Apple Developer Forums are perhaps like the current documentation. Nice to
> look at but not very useful. Interesting that this list has had somewhat of
> a resurgence in recent months.
>
> Apple sample code should compile and run on the current version of Xcode.
> Period. What good is sample code if it takes a day to get it up and running.
>
> --Richard Charles
>
>
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