Re: Future direction of AppKit manual

[Lloyd Dupont]

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>
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Armstrong" <address@ishidden.com>
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To: <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 7:35 PM
Subject: Future direction of AppKit manual


> Happy new year to all those on the other side of the world...
>
> Some may have noticed that I've been writing a reference manual for
> using GNUstep's AppKit. It's finally starting to looking like a real
> manual instead of something more half-arsed, although it's still full of
> stubs and is far from complete.
>
> Here's the latest update:
>
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~smokey27/AppKit-20060102.pdf
>
> So far I've had some substantial feedback (and some thread about
> grammer), and I know it's still full of spelling errors (of which I'll
> need to find time to fix), but I'd like to get some people's opinions as
> to how they like to see this thing unfold. An idea of the future
> direction of what this manual will be would be great. Anyone's
> experiences with beginning to use GNUstep would be real useful, as 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, If anyone has any documentation lying around that
> they think will help, send me an email on the address below.
>
> Cheers
> Christopher Armstrong
>
> carmstrong at fastmail dot com dot au
>
>
>
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