Re: Future direction of AppKit manual

[Christopher Armstrong]

Yep I should have mentioned that I meant the manual as more of a
reference as opposed to a set of tutorials. That said, I do want to
include complete examples that demonstrate the concepts included. I
guess I'll need to start thinking of practical things that can be done
minimally. Perhaps like a defaults browser implemented NSBrowser, or an
image viewer to demonstrate NSImage, or something of a very simple
spreadsheet with NSMatrix and some NSTextFieldCell's. One thing I should
document more closely is drag and drop.

My main aim was to write something that documented the AppKit at a
developer's level, something that people can use to achieve common taks,
not just a class reference. I've tried to assume that the person has/can
read the GNUstep base manual, which explains Objective-C and how you can
use it quite thoroughly. I didn't want to focus too much on explaining
selectors, informal/formal protocols, etc. It would be nice to combine
some people's tutorials on such subject matter (I know alot of people
have written stuff explaining Objective-C), but I didn't want to
replicate the work already done.

Oh and by the way, I didn't mean to exclude anyone with my New year's
greeting :-)

Cheers
Chris

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:12 +1000, Lloyd Dupont wrote:
> I browsed quickly throught it. Looks nice!
> 
> However according to you requirement of: "I'm
> trying to aim this thing at people who don't have much experience with
> Objective-C or Cocoa/OpenStep but who want to start developing
> applications quickly"
> 
> I would suggest you have less theory and more simple sample program.
> 
> When learning a new language I usually like to write/compile/run a simple 
> program
> (hello world?) and then (second) get the theory behind what I did.
> 
> Then goes on a more complex sample and, again, after I tweaked it by guess 
> browsing the documentation, read the theory again. And so on....
> 
> And I will try to have an happy new year, even though you excluded me from 
> your wich target ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Lloyd Dupont
> 
> NovaMind development team
> NovaMind Software
> Mind Mapping Software
> <www.nova-mind.com>

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Christopher Armstrong <carmstrong at fastmail dot com dot au>