My path to learning was threefold: 1. Do the 'ToDo' app tutorial, while studying the 'PocketChange' app from the book at the same time.
2. Read the Lift book. 3. Read David's and the 'Staircase' Scala books. I agree that, compared to the wealth of information, books, tutorials, videos, etc to be found on Rails, GAE-Django, and web2py, there is far less for Lift and Scala, but this is a young (and, in my opinion, much more advanced) framework, so it will take time. Tell us what you have learned, as I am doing on the group! On Jun 26, 6:14 pm, Rick <ric...@gmail.com> wrote: > Today is my very first day that I planned to take a serious look at Lift. > I've coded webapps in many different frameworks and plan to do a simple > Employee app and add my 'how to' to the site I host > herehttp://www.learntechnology.net/content/main.jsp(which many of the examples > there show the same application being built with different frameworks.) > > Some users like myself might want to start by looking at an existing > examples before going through the exact step by step as described in the > user manual (which has a broken link to the wiki by the way -yes, I > submitted a bug report.) > > If I want to take that route there should be a quick way to find example > projects with the source code. Finding these example was extremely > tedious.... > > At some point a new user might go the wiki. .. > you get to the wiki page looking for examples.. > you look at the content menu.. > you might try the 'cheat sheet getting started link'... > cheat by examples has a link 'lift by examples', but that doesn't seem to > really show example apps? > BY CHANCE, I happened to see in a "How To" - how to run examples (which at > first i thought why would I click this when I haven't even seen any > examples?), but I clicked it anyway.. > Then on the "how to run examples' link I was excited to see a list of some > examples (buried way to deep for a new user to find imo.) > Yet only the war links work? None of the project links are active? > > Finding example apps to study and learn by is seemingly very difficult to > do. Are there any out there? If so where? > > For new user, learning by examples is extremely important. I think a lot of > new users will be turned off if it's difficult to find some example > applications to study to learn from. > > I understand all of this is open source and I plan to write a tutorial once > I learn it, but it would be nice to find some existing apps to start with. > > thanks for all the work done so far. > > -- > Rick R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
