I promise I will do a thorough review of the book asap and will publish a 6th edition.
As far as the wiki goes we have web2pyslices but it needs to evolve.... Any volunteers? Massimo On Friday, 13 February 2015 19:48:16 UTC-6, Manuel Moscariello wrote: > > 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 While looking for plugins, on the other hand many of them were out of date 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.
