@massimo: We've communicated before about our application... but It's been a while. ;) I'm a teacher at Friends Central School in PA. In addition to teaching web development and python, I'm working with another programmer to re-build our existing intranet application that handles a wide range of classroom mgmt. activities (attendance, assignments, grading, special reports, transcripts, enrollment, athletic team mgmt, scheduling, etc.) After redesigning the db and migrating all data, I'm finally getting back to web2py.
We've decided to build this app as an RIA (rich internet application). As such, we'll develop a mix of template-driven pages for data maintenance as well as pages with more sophisticated interaction. For the latter, we're using web2py to return an HTML skeleton and ajax/ json to populate data on the page. Once the teacher/student home pages are rendered, our use of ajax should improve user interaction significantly when compared to the existing app. I may decide to teach web2py to my python class, but I'm not currently competent enough with the product to teach it. I'd need to find time to dig into the gluon and contrib modules before I'd feel comfortable. I know you must be thinking... if I looked at the code, I'd be more competent with the product. It's a question of priority; I need to get an application out, not master the underlying code. So, right now, I'm just a "user" who occasionally peeks under the hood. @Jonathan: When I research problems, I look in the book, on the web2py site, and in the wiki. I agree that one central repository is essential to people like me who are struggling to go up the learning curve. I think a web-based repository is best because it can be more dynamic/responsive than a book. It would be terrific if someone could cull and categorize all the wisdom of this group in one place (I find the "search" here to be hit and miss). That said, I also understand the need for a book. -Michael On Aug 14, 3:37 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Michael wrote: > > > Thanks Massimo, that's a great help. I'm starting to get the hang of > > it. > > > I had trouble with the following: > > >>>> r9=db(q2)(db.Section.id==7767|db.Section.id==7540).select() > > > but realized that I needed to enclose the filters in parentheses: > > >>>> r9=db(q2)( (db.Section.id==7767) | (db.Section.id==7540) ).select() > > > The web2py book certainly helped with basic concepts but now that I've > > ventured into real-world coding on our classroom management > > application, I'm finding it difficult to extrapolate the basics to the > > more complex tasks. > > That's been my experience. This list is very useful, but it'd be nice > to be able to capture this kind of help someplace easier to find. > > > Hence, I really appreciate your help. I'm hoping > > the new version of the book will contain more advanced examples so I > > can work through problems more independently. :) > > > BTW, it was at this exact point that I gave up on django last summer. > > I couldn't find a way to generate very complex joins using their DAL. > > Eventually, I turned to web2py. It was the right decision for our --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
