[Zope] Quickstart needs updating!

Donald Braman donald.braman@yale.edu
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:16:20 -0500


It's true that there is not a clear message as to where a newbie should
start to learn Zope. The Zope home page has a "Learn Zope" section. When you
click on More..., though, you don't find a tutorial, but a kind of "about
page". If you are really smart (or lucky), you'll then click on the Zope
Book link and read it cover to cover, doing all the exercises. However, it
would be good to have this be explicitly stated as generically the best way
to learn about Zope for those who are starting fresh.

I propose a tweak to the layout for the zope.org home page, breaking out
"about Zope" and "Learning Zope". Learning Zope would contain, of course,
links to various introductory documents and how-tos. However, it would state
up front what a newbie who wants to learn Zope should do. It might also have
separate sections for non-programmers, people with programming experience,
real wizards, etc. Obviously people can learn however they want, but being
told "If in doubt, do/read this, then do/read this, etc." is helpful to
newbies who are generally "in doubt" about what to do.

BTW, I think Zope Newbies could do the same. A "Learn Zope" link or area on
the top page there be very nice.

-Don



[Zope] Quickstart needs updating!
Michel Pelletier michel@digicool.com
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:31:47 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Joel Burton wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Jeff Sasmor wrote:
>
>
> > >>>In The Almighty Lever
> >   "An exiting new development being worked on for Zope is The Lever... "
> >
> >   (I have been working with Zope for well over a year and
> >    still don't know what THIS is....)
>
> Yeeps. Never heard of it.

"The Lever" is the same thing as a ZClass factory.  In fact, the last
chapter of the Zope book explains how you can use factories to create
pre-fab templates from regular Zope objects as well as from
ZClasses.  That's the lever.

http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/CustomZopeObjects.dtml

> > >>> In "Programming Data with Tabula"

Tabula became ZTables, which is the genetic predecessor of ZCatalog.

> > Summary: Quickstart Really Needs to Get Updated

Quickstart Really Needs to Get Axed.

-Michel