Re: What is the status on the New Cocoa 2.0 Books?

FROM : Michael Gregoire
DATE : Thu Mar 13 02:24:01 2008

Actually, the "docs" are already online at apple.com.
Books are not "docs", they're tutorials. Though tutorials and guides 
are severely lacking in the Objective-C 2.0 arena.

On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:09 PM, colo wrote:

> Wow thats a long time to wait for new docs and working tutorials for
> the new Leopard API's .
> As I two really want to get started at learning how to code for the
> NDA thing as well
>
> That NDA thing must be just that awesome to wait so long for some docs
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Gary L. Wade
> <<email_removed>> wrote:

>>> I know hillegass is doing one but has anyone a date on it ?
>>> And might there be others ?

>>
>>  Barnes and Noble shows a publication of June 13, 2008, and 
>> Amazon.com shows a publication of May 26, 2008:
>>
>>  <http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?

>> EAN=9780321503619>
>>
>>
>>  <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321503619>
>>
>>  The B&N publication date may be later because their web site 
>> shows it as 500 pages while Amazon's shows it as 464 pages.  Also, 
>> B&N is charging $2.25 more, so I guess those 36 extra pages and 
>> almost three weeks must be worth it.
>>
>>  Okay, I really don't believe that either, but at least you've got 
>> a place to check for it.
>>
>>  Now that I think about it, maybe from the success of the iPhone 
>> and the popularity of that NDA-based thing we're not to talk about 
>> here, they may be expecting the Amazon first printing to sell out, 
>> causing a second printing with errata in the B&N version that will 
>> also include info on that NDA-based thing we're not to talk about 
>> here.
>>
>>  Okay, I really really don't believe that either, but I really 
>> have been wanting to talk about that NDA-based thing we're not to 
>> talk about here.
>>
>>  Alright, that's all I'm going to say about that NDA-based thing 
>> we're not supposed to talk about here.
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