On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Karl Guertin wrote: > > So I've been thinking that while the 20 minute wiki is cool, it is > really designed to show off the TG 0.5 functionality rather than the > 1.0 functionality. As such, it really doesn't show off the big > features that TG now provides (widgets, identity, error handling). I > think it's a shame that we don't exercise the nicer features of the > framework when we're introducing people. > > I've skimmed but haven't worked through Brian's tutorial, but it seems > to do a better job of covering at least widgets. Has any thought gone > into making a bigger, badder tutorial for 1.0? I'm working on other > docs, but I thought I'd toss the idea out there so that it can get > done for 1.0 final.
I debated about using widgets when I recorded that screencast. I ended up not doing so, because I thought it introduced too many concepts. I *did* do the "20 Minute AK Wiki" at EuroPython, which used widgets and featured delicious-style tagging for the pages. It also used sqlalchemy. That might be an interesting contrast. Brian's tutorial is also good. It's important to have tutorials that sort of gracefully help the person get going as opposed to trying to introduce the whole mass of things at once. Some folks have previously talked of a sort of "rolling tutorial" that starts off simple and keeps building on new things. (There's a part of the book that's like that.) Kevin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Docs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-docs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
