This might be a stupid idea... but I might be willing to work with someone who understands Python web development to work on a better intro tutorial. The current tutorials are rather cryptic and hard to understand, as they assume you know what a lot of things are that they are talking about. I was thinking about taking a rough tutorial on how to make something in Python (say a simple webpage?) and then ask questions as I go along about the many things that are not explained... then modify the tutorial to include explanations and new code samples to make it easier to understand.
BTW, Mike, what's this Python site of yours? I have an idea for a documentation site that I would like to run by you and see if your are interested.... Well, better yet, why don't I post it here and now? :) Ever noticed how most documentation sites have some kind of copyright or copyleft attached to it? Other than the rare Creative Commons site, I have yet to see any documentation sites dedicated to a kind of "public domain" documentation -- you know, something with no strings attached - completely free for all -- akin to the free source licenses for code (MIT, BSD, public domain). I really would like to have something like this for programmers -- a site with tutorials, documentations, and quick function references, etc.... Who knows, perhaps all the people working on the various Python web frameworks would like to convert over their documentation to this and allow others to add to it. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Mike Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 3/7/07, Patrick K. O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2007, at 9:57 PM, Mike Orr wrote: > > > > > What's probably lacking is an explanation of Pylons in PHP terms. > > > > That was a great overview, Mike. Someone needs to put that on a wiki > > page, imo. > > I'm making a page for the Pylons site. It's not up yet though. > > Thanks to Arthur for bringing this to our attention. It's one of > those things that makes a significant difference for people > considering Python frameworks. The same goes for those from Java and > ASP backgrounds, but I've never used those so I don't have any > specific comments. > > -- > Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > Paste-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://webwareforpython.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/paste-users _______________________________________________ Paste-users mailing list [email protected] http://webwareforpython.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/paste-users
