Re: Trying to understand -- please help...

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Wed May 21 22:20:34 2008

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Bill Bumgarner <<email_removed>> wrote:

I have taught/mentored/managed/reviewed/interviewed literally hundreds of
> Cocoa programmers over the past two decades (counting Cocoa's NeXT produced
> predecessors).  My experience has been that the most successful Cocoa
> programmers are the ones that learn the standard patterns of the frameworks.
>  They not only learn said patterns, they write their own code with the same
> pattern.



My experience goes a bit further than that - Cocoa was my first exposure to
formal design patterns, and understanding them has been useful in any number
of ways outside of Cocoa as well.

If anything, "Cocoa Fundamentals Guide" should be added to the long list of
> "Companion Guides" that appears at the top of every single class reference
> document.



That link is already at the top of the AppKit and Foundation references
pages, and I honestly don't think more people would read it if it appeared
at the top of every single page. Some folks simply think that knowing C++
and Java is good enough to understand Cocoa by the references alone, and
will insist on skipping the "fundamentals guides" no matter how many links
to them there are.

sherm--

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