[Zope3-dev] IMPORTANT RFS: Through the Web Site Development

[Godefroid Chapelle]

At 02:59 14/01/2003, you wrote:
>On Monday 13 January 2003 17:24, Luciano Ramalho wrote:
>
> > I've never met someone who learned web development in Zope.
>
>As one of the probably tiny number of people who have done this, I'll 
>chime in
>briefly.
>
> >From my point of view,  it is all about documentation, particularly books.
>
>I made my first Zope applications copying the code from the Zope Book's
>chapter on ZClasses.  Without that book, it would have been hopeless.  The
>strength of ZClass development for newbies is not that it is intuitive to get
>started, but that your first attempts are relatively bulletproof.  I quite
>rashly set up two mission-critical applications for our school using
>ZClasses.  I barely knew what I was doing and they worked flawlessly.
>
>I don't think I could have gotten started with Python products before the 
>Zope
>Bible came out.  Everything does make much more sense once one starts using
>Python and it is a big relief.
>
>I don't fully understand Python scripts because I've never absolutely had to
>make them work.
>
>ZPT is a hurdle for me only because all the existing books primarily use DTML
>examples throughout.
>
>One lurker's point of view.

Thanks, I think that Zope3-dev really need lurker's point of view in this case.


>--Tom

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