[Grok-dev] Grok & the lack of good documentation

Martijn Faassen faassen at startifact.com
Wed Sep 9 07:59:03 EDT 2009


grokomobil wrote:
> The main tutorial is indeed easy to understand. Probably even a litle bit too
> easy to give you enough knowledge that is needed to go on yourself. The
> problem, especially for important topics like widgets and schemas is, that
> you get no information about them here. You have to crawl through the Zope
> API to get at least an idea what default methods they have, what default
> widgets are etc.. At this point, you have already lost beginners before they
> even created their first grok.form
> It's not possible to leave out everything that deals with zope-stuff if you
> want to explain a newbie how to use grok. Referencing to the Zope API is no
> excuse here cause there is no real explanation either. 

Oh, I agree. The tutorial should be 5 times as big and it costs time and 
energy to cover it all. :)

Regards,

Martijn



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