I second what Mike says. I really enjoy working with turbogears, but the really hard part about learning it is that the examples in the book could have been proven to be in working order before release. I am getting very frustrated with the Bookmarker examples in chapter five. Mostly the part where we add the widgets. I feel now that I must start over again to see where the book went wrong and where I went wrong as well. I just hope that the rest of the book will be less of a head ache and more enjoyable.
The really ironic part about all this is how in the beginning of the book the author stresses the 'Pythonic principals' "With TurboGears, we try to adhere to these principles as much as possible". Too bad in the The Zen of Python there wasn't a line stating "working is better then not". ;-) However, I do enjoy the writing style and will finish the book. This is one of the few books out there related to IT that don't bore you to death. Hopefully in future releases more attention to detail in the code you are trying to promote will be given. On Jan 14, 5:27 pm, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't want to be critical of this resource, but thisbookis very > frustrating. I am on chapter 5 and have had nothing but problems. On > pg 68 we create a class called BookmarkFields. Somewhere along the > way, the class gets changed to bookmark_fields on pg 76. There's also > another mistake in the function get_category_options() that refers to > category.ID rather than category.id. Oh...and there's an "h" at the > end of the class bookmark_fields(). > > The Addendum page does not mention any of these mistakes but DOES > mention something about parens being misplaced. I'm still not sure > what it's talking about as I seem to have all my parens in my copy. > > And why do we create methods that break the kid templates? I barely > get the form.kid working and then the save_bookmark method update in > thebookbreaks it again. > > While I'm on it, NONE of the downloadable code from the TurboGearsbookwebsite > for chapter 4 works. I had to edit them manually before > they would run. > > I think the TurboGears concept rocks! And the first 2 chapters worked > like a charm. It was amazing! But now I just want to chuck thebookat > the wall. > > Maybe in the morning everything will look better. But I thought Ramm > or Dangoor might want to update their list oferrors... > > Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
