Hello everyone, I have a little question for you all. I started to learn web2py around a month ago and, even though I found in it a great potential and a nice code, I had some issues with the documentation.
All the tutorials around are broken links, lacking of explanation and sometimes full of errors (for a tutorial I had to follow a second tutorial that explains how to get through the first). So alright, I went straight to the web2py official book. First thing I notice is that online you have 6th edition while the pdf is the 5th edition. That brought me to use code that Massimo later told me was not raccomended anymore. The book itself is, anyway, a bit confusing in many parts, like when it says "you could do like this, but this is better, oh and this is a even better way to do it!", or sometimes lacking in a thread, just saying what all the commands are. Or, some other times, just telling you "that's the code", and not explaining any futher. While looking for plugins, on the other hand many of them were out of date (like istantpress, simplrCMS), or abandoned, or totally lacking of documentation. All that said, I wonder: why doesn't this community have a wikia? Wouldn't that be a simple and easy to update way of keeping documentation and track of all that needs to be known to develop in web2py? Right now for a plugin or general information about web2py I need to follow several blogs, articles, this google group and the book. It's a bit confusing and while I keep informing, some others may find it a good reason to use Django instead, or other frameworks. Please don't take what I say as a way of discredit anyone who worked with this project. I sincerly like it and I thank every person who used his time to make it better. I just find that a more centralized documentation would be helpful for the beginners. All the best, Manuel -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
