Well, the IBM manuals could be pretty dry, but there were several that were excellent. The "Nutshell" books generally do a good job of balancing tutorial and reference info, though the references are necessarily abbreviated.
As an example of a pretty good (though far from perfect) online reference, see the Qt documentation: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6-snapshot/index.html (I could also, of course, point you at some pretty abysmal online documentation, such as the Symbian C++ stuff.) On Jul 16, 1:06 pm, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" <cor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dan, > > Pardon my direct contact... > > Back in the old days, I wrote mostly for IBM hardware and I must say > they had the best manuals ever. I'm sure you remember how they always > had a great example, and a cross reference to similar functions so if > the one you were looking at didn't cut the mustard, one of the > referenced functions would probably do it. Plus their manuals were > always nearly perfect with hardly an error. It would be nice to see > such documentation again but I fear they are something from the past > and will never be seen again. In the old days, a language would remain > virtually unchanged for a decade, now though a language can come into > being, shine brightly and fade into obsolescence in a matter of a year > or two, hardly enough time to really mature. > > I think this is a case of "Remember the good old days?" > > -John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
