This has been a really good thread, I think it would be cool to gather all these suggestions on a the doc wiki somehow.
My two cents to add to the otherwise excellent suggestions: Books I love: - HTML & XHTML, the definitive guide ( O'reilly ) - Apache, the definitive guide ( O'Reilly ) - Javascript, The Complete Reference ( I'm sure the O'Reilly is good too though ) - Cascading Style Sheets, the definitive guide ( O'Reilly ) - A Practical Guide to Linux: Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, by Mark Sobel - Beginning Python - Core Python - also, get some good books on coding practice and OO design. To the good suggestions I would add that it is worth setting up a linux install at home at learning how to run and code on a local development box. This will make learning how to deploy and test gears much easier ( which is non-trivial for the newbie ). The Sobel book I recommend is a great way to get up and running on the command line, editors ( vim & emacs ), basic shell scripting, regular expressions, etc. All tools that are invaluable to the serious web developer. If I could go back in time to talk to myself, I would tell myself not to just learn code from sites but start with a proper book on html/xhtml, css, and javascript. There are waaay too many out of date or plain bad examples and tutorials on the net. These are your tools, it's worth spending the money on the best current books. I would also tell myself to really learn regular expressions, my editor ( Vim for me personally ), and bash commands. Being able to properly combine and integrate those three will save you countless hours of work and make you vastly more efficient as a coder. Hope that helps. Iain --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
