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Xcode Book Status Report

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It’s WWDC time, and many of you are wondering how things are progressing on the new edition of Xcode Tools Sensei. I’ve made a lot of progress on the Xcode material. I’ve decided to break up the huge Xcode chapter (Chapter 1 in the current version of the book) into smaller chapters. I currently have the Xcode material divided into the following chapters:

  • Projects
  • Source Code Editing
  • Modeling Tools
  • Building Projects
  • Debugging
  • Version Control

The chapters with the most remaining work are the Interface Builder and Instruments chapters. I was vaugely dissatisfied with the original Interface Builder chapter. I am looking at ways to improve the material for Interface Builder 3.

The Instruments chapter has been the biggest problem for me. Instruments is huge. I could write an entire book just on Instruments. Plus in Xcode 3, ObjectAlloc and Sampler are Instruments trace templates instead of separate applications so I have to merge material from the ObjectAlloc and Sampler chapters into an Instruments chapter. It’s a tough chapter to organize.