Re: Xcode 4 related questions
Re: Xcode 4 related questions
- Subject: Re: Xcode 4 related questions
- From: M Pulis <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:08:52 -0700
On Mar 12, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Nathan Sims wrote:
On Mar 12, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:08:23 -0800, Nathan Sims <email@hidden
> said:
Is there a video or something to show how to use Xcode 4?
Yes.
Wow. That's just SO helpful. Thanks for the lead.
Isn't it a sign of poor design if the UI isn't intuitive?
No. Or, to put it another way, "intuitive" is not the same as "you
somehow magically know all about it without learning anything." Why
should *that* be? It's perfectly reasonable for a serious, complex,
deeply powerful program to come with a learning curve. I think it's
more a sign of poor user-hood to try to use such a program without
first reading the manual. m.
That's wholly disingenuous. The problem is in transitioning from
Xcode 3, most things in Xcode 4 require A LOT of discovering, as the
entire paradigm has changed and it's not apparent from the UI where
everything is or how everything is set up to work. Xcode 3 was
simple: for the basics of building/debugging/running, everything was
right there on the GUI in plain sight. That's a good UI design.
Xcode 4 imposes a UI workflow on things that you must discover
before you can be productive with it.
Which is exactly why Apple produced the videos and plethora of Xcode 4
info and hid them on their web site. Which is why you have the same
info given to the Apple conference attendees, available _before_ you
download. Wow, now that is helpful!
For those of us that do read release notes and understand that a major
version release of our bread and butter tools is more than updating
iTunes, we appreciate the lengths the Xcode team goes to make
programming accessible. Integrating IB and Xcode looks excellent, for
instance.
This is a new age, we are way beyond the code/debug/ship cycle; there
is much more involved in the process with debug/release/submission
cycles, certifications, provisioning, etc.
Wizards read the docs while the rest wonder how.
Back to work.
gary
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