The Book of Zope
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Author: Beehive
List Price: $39.95
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ISBN: 1886411573
Publisher: No Starch Press (15 October, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 99,716
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Nice Idea TERRIBLE Execution
Where are all these good reviews coming from? Did they read the book and try to follow the instructions and examples? I tried and couldn't.Now I'm a tech savy person and own a large library of tech books, so normally I don't have a problem with even the most dense and poorly written tech guides. This one, however, has proved useless. The most glaring problem, one that you will find on almost every other page is that their figures and diagrams don't match up with their text. Moreover, you'll often even find that the figure doesn't even match up with the text cited with figure. Very confusing! At present I'm equating learning Zope to learning unix - real test of understanding complexity; a poorly organized text makes this process more difficult. So, what do you do? Well, don't buy this book. The 'Zope Book' is very good and downloadable in pdf format. Also, the Zope Bible, which I've just started is very good. For more advanced topics try the 'Zope Web Applications and Content Management'. Also, Zope comes with a very nifty tutorial. Well, hope this helps. Don't make the same mistake i did in buying this book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Beautiful Graphics and Presentation
The graphics and layout of this book make it a joy to read. I own several good Zope books but this is the first one I turn to when I need to look something up.The information is organized logically and easy to find. There is a separate appendix in the back with a lot of the DTML and other Zope syntax listed in separate tables. For instance, last night I used it to look up the DTML string functions. A great benefit is the separate chapter that provides an introduction to Python. I had also bought a separate Python book to help me get up and running with Zope, but I really didn't need one because this book gives you the basics that you need.
This book is really a joy. If you can only afford one book I even recommend this one instead of the The Zope Book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
This book picks up where "The Zope Book" left off...
"The Zope Book" is the official documentation from Digital Creations (the makers of Zope). While an absolute necessity, it didn't cover everything I needed to get completely off the ground with Zope. This is the only Zope book I've found so far that fills in the gaps and did it in a way that was comprehensive and well-written. The other Zope books I've read felt "thrown together." This is an absolute must-have for any Zopista.
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