On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Bill Bumgarner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
