Cocoa mail archive
RE: Guidance for Cocoa's steep learning curve
FROM : john darnell
DATE : Fri May 16 16:19:13 2008
Sigh. Your attitude reminds me of a conversation I once had with a
fellow programmer. When I was encouraging her to add more documentation
to the code, she replied, jokingly, "If it was hard for me to write,
then it should be hard for them to read."
The sad thing is that you are not joking...
[Mike says:] >
Google for "delegate site:developer.apple.com" and the first hit is
"Cocoa Fundamentals Guide: Delegates and Data Sources". This document
explains what delegates are and how to use them.
It's documentation, not a tutorial. It assumes you're relatively
fluent in the system as a whole, and doesn't try to teach you from
scratch. In other words, this is a feature, not a bug. I could
certainly see wanting more tutorials from Apple, but the documentation
itself does the job it's intended for pretty well. For now, if you're
after a tutorial, your best bet is probably to turn to third parties
in the form of Cocoa books.
DATE : Fri May 16 16:19:13 2008
Sigh. Your attitude reminds me of a conversation I once had with a
fellow programmer. When I was encouraging her to add more documentation
to the code, she replied, jokingly, "If it was hard for me to write,
then it should be hard for them to read."
The sad thing is that you are not joking...
[Mike says:] >
Google for "delegate site:developer.apple.com" and the first hit is
"Cocoa Fundamentals Guide: Delegates and Data Sources". This document
explains what delegates are and how to use them.
It's documentation, not a tutorial. It assumes you're relatively
fluent in the system as a whole, and doesn't try to teach you from
scratch. In other words, this is a feature, not a bug. I could
certainly see wanting more tutorials from Apple, but the documentation
itself does the job it's intended for pretty well. For now, if you're
after a tutorial, your best bet is probably to turn to third parties
in the form of Cocoa books.
