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

FROM : Jens Alfke
DATE : Thu Mar 13 04:03:01 2008

On 12 Mar '08, at 6:09 PM, colo wrote:

> 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


Part of the fun of being an early adopter is that you have to figure 
stuff out before there are books to explain it. It's your choice; you 
could wait six months or a year for some books. But then you won't be 
one of the first.

(Actually, the current docs are quite good, all things considered. 
Back in the day, the system documentation used to consist of badly-
Xeroxed copies of napkins that the programmers had scrawled some 
instructions on, while suffering from exhaustion and caffeine 
psychosis. And the developer program charged you $1200 a year for 
those, and didn't even give you a damn binder to put them in. And we 
lapped it up!)

—Jens