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Re: Difference between developer guide content and reference information

Subject: Re: Difference between developer guide content and reference information
From: "Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:13:31 -0700


Amen to what Bill and Jeffrey said. Also, reference guides tend to be structured encyclopedically -- for a Java API Reference, you have an alphabetical list of packages; within each package, an alphabetical list of classes/interfaces; within each class/interface, alphabetical lists of fields, methods, etc.

User Guides are task-oriented, with their sequence based on the set of tasks.

--Guy K. Haas
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley

Jeffrey Osier-Mixon wrote:


What Bill said fits my interpretation as well.

Conceptually it sometimes helps to find out what questions the document is supposed to answer. A reference guide, API guide, or other specific reference document answers "what". A developer guide, programmer's guide, etc. answers "how".




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References:
Re: Difference between developer guide content and reference information: From: Bill Swallow
Re: Difference between developer guide content and reference information: From: Jeffrey Osier-Mixon

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