I'm 38. I've been running Linux for a few years but I have no
programming experience ecxept; copy and past some VBA in Excel, a few
shell scripts, and a brief attempt at figuring out CakePHP. I've had
a copy of Massimo's book for about a month and it is great! I've
already put together a productivity application for my position at
work. But what really helps someone like me, who has about 20 minutes
a day to study these things, are working examples and the vimeo's he
put's out. I find that applying a solution helps my understanding of
the programming concept, which comes later.
One thing I've noticed is that the programming community assumes I
know much more about programming concepts than I actually do. Having
examples with links to elaboration would be ideal.
On Apr 1, 12:28 pm, TheDude <officed...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (This isn't an April Fool's Joke)
>
> So, I've been writing a book for Web2Py, but recently came towards a
> new direction...we already have a great in-depth book writeen by
> Massimo so I was wondering...
>
> Would you guys be interested in a book for web2py like 250 pages long
> that goes in-depth? Or, a nice little quick start guide :D here's the
> thing, BOTH will be able to teach you the fundamentals that you'll
> need to create 80%+ web applications. One will just tell you how to do
> things, but then link you to the documentation page available on
> web2py.com for more information.
>
> Examples:
> (QuickStart)
> In order to create a table for our database, we'll need to <b>define</
> b> our table.
> code:
> db.define_table('tablename',
> SQLField('fieldname','string', notnull=True)
> SQLField('fieldname2','integer', notnull=True),
> )
>
> Let's say we wanted to have a table reference the "tablename" table.
> db.define_table('table2',
> SQLField('tablename_id', db.tablename),
> SQLField('imafield','boolean'),
> )
>
> <explain how the reference key works briefly then provide a link to
> the DAL explantion page for all options>
>
> I think the quick-start guide will really help boost the web2py
> community and get people started on a project. It's similar to the
> Dojo, but a bit different since it'll go more in-depth than the Dojo
> but at the same time you don't have to learn everything. :) It will
> skip things like "What is MVC?" and "Why Web2Py framework" etc. I
> believe Massimo has already full-filled that information.
>
> The book will be available online (HTML) and PDF as well as a
> published book.
>
> Please let me know if your thoughts.
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