I've got a few books now about Python. The best one is definitly "The Quick Python Book" for beginners. It helps to know some programming, but the english in this book is really really good. The guys Daryl Harms and Kenneth McDonald know not only Python but how to express themselfs in a good fluent and easy english. Despite the "ease" of this book, it doesn't make you feel silly like the "...for dummies". ISBN 1-884777-74-0 For juicy content, the Python Essential Reference is good and I am not alone to think so apparently. ISBN 0-7357-0901-7 No, PHP is not easier. Well it is in a sense compared to ASP for example. PHP people tend to fins Zope too difficult, but that is just because there used to the "baby approach" of PHP. Print out the Learning Zope book and read it. Page by page. But do this at the same time as you learn python and it will be easier to understand DTML (which you'll find yourself in front of a lot in the future) Good luck!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Newman" <newman@ukonline.co.uk> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:46 PM Subject: [Zope] only know HTML; how easy to learn Zope?
I only know HTML. No programming. I found Learning Python very difficult. But I do (just about!) manage to run FreeBSD :-)
How hard is it for non-programmers to learn Zope? Would PHP be easier? How many of you guys graduated from Python to Zope? If I only know HTML can I realistically learn anything beyond the very basics of Zope or am I looking at learning Pyhton in parallel?
Should I start with the Zope Book? Should I start learning python at the same time? If Learning Python was hard, which book do you recommend?
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