On Mar 23, 11:14 pm, Steve Piercy <[email protected]> wrote: > I am collecting discussion points and questions for Rachel. > Here's what I have so far. > > * What kind of book about Pyramid do you think would be successful?
Also a bit late to this.... As a part time mediocre Python coder and occasional Pyramid tinkerer that hasn't yet built anything substantial or permanent yet, I could very well be in the (target?) market for Pyramid books. While I think there could be a market for a beginners "Python web development (with Pyramid)" book that also introduces a lot of the surrounding ecosystem like WGSI, virtualenvs, Python distributions, ORM basics, templates etc - I have a sneaking suspicion that Pyramid doesn't attract the kind of people who would need a book like that. ie Pyramid newbies usually aren't complete newbies to Python or web development. The kind of book that I personally would find useful is a cookbook with a slant towards architectural topics. The recipes could be less numerous and more indepth than in typical O'Reilly cookbooks. ie various different ways of putting together slightly more complicated apps/sites in nicely maintainable ways. Kinda like the cookbook in the online docs but with a bigger picture focus. And recipes that show the benefits of some of Pyramids more advanced features in practical ways. The Pyramid docs are awesome from a low level completeness point of view and they have enough tutorial style stuff in there to get intermediate coders like me up and running without much trouble. But after having your eyes opened, it's always the 'what next?' or 'how could I make my code smarter and better organised?' type questions that hurt my brain to think about :) Or for someone wanting to write a more focussed intro book using specific technologies - a "RESTful HTML5 development with Pyramid/ Cornice/AngularJS" book would tick all the buzzword boxes (and I'd probably still buy it). -- Cheers Anton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
