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Subject:Re: What are "advanced" API topics? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 29 May 2001 14:01:45 -0700 (PDT)
The question wasn't what does it take to write API documentation. The
question was..."what would draw me in"...and I don't happen to be a
programmer, but in the past, have been asked to create API
documentation.
However, if I was, then I wouldn't bew writing it without a
programmer .... however, I'd be the programmer
I'm sure there are a number of writers on this list without
programming knowledge who have been asked to do API documentation.
--- "Susan W. Gallagher" <susanwg -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com> wrote:
> Doesn't that come under the heading of subject matter
> knowledge? The more you know about the task at hand --
> programming in language x -- the more independent you
> can be when writing the docs. Yes/No/Maybe?????
> -S
>
> At 01:30 PM 5/29/01 -0700, John Posada wrote:
> >Creating API documentation without developers or programmers.
> >
> > > API topics. If you were attending next year's STC
> > > conference, what would draw you in???
=====
John Posada, Senior Technical Writer
"How to be happy in life: Never impose your beliefs
on anyone else and never fry bacon in the nude."
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