On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 10:46, Jaroslav Lukesh wrote:
| OdesÃlatel: Casey Duncan <casey@zope.com> | Anyone serious about developing in Zope should also learn Python, which, | if you've programmed in any other language before can be done quite | quickly. Its also a great language for beginner programmers. Knowing | Python gives you a tremendous advantage in understanding Zope and the | CMF (because you can read tracebacks and the source code and write | Python scripts, external methods and products).
Hmm... I was programmed before 13 years ago in native code (no assembler, raw hexa code). Today I was able to make little modifications to source code (asm, c, some little dtml-ext), or make small "programs" in JavaScript only. DTML external methods are "spanish village" for me :( I need to develop corporate intranet, so I decide for Zope instead VisualInterdev.
So if in todays view I have no programming skills, should I begin to learn Python? It is good starting point? I have no accessibility to the university and students community (too long distance), so I need to be self-teached.
Learning Python will help you tremendously in understanding Zope. There are many great online sources for python (python.org, Dive into Python, to name a couple). There are also many excellent books. I'd say definitely go for it. -Casey