In response to cadrentes and to elaborate on the project more...
The book will be made for people who don't have a lot of time on their
hands and would like to get their hands "dirty" with Web2Py as fast as
possible. Most of the book will contain links to resources and guides,
including videos, recipes, plugins, and etc. It will help you migrate
into the Web2Py community easily and understand all of the jargon used
within Web2Py (which isn't a lot).
The only thing I'd be worried about is what cadrentes said, he doesn't
know much about programming but the web2py book assumes he does. The
thing is, web2py book is about..well learning web2py not programming.
There are many other excellent resources for learning python. In
Massimo's book, it seems like he does teach a bare-bones-minimum
python programming to get you by on what you need. So cadrentes, what
were some of the things that you found troubling in the Web2Py Manual
book?
Overall, I think I'll be writing a lot of versions of the book online
and keep improving on it, and then eventually publishing it once I
feel the book has matured enough.
Thanks for all of your help guys. :)
On Apr 3, 9:53 am, cadrentes <cadren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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