[Tutor] web programming tutorials?

[Alan Gauld]

"Monika Jisswel" <monjissvel at googlemail.com> wrote 

> reading theses emails i have a question :
> ikaaro  or zope - what's best ? which one is the most used ?

They are very different animals as far as I can rtell.

In terms of usage there is nom doubt Zope is more poular, you 
can tell that by the fact that there are several commercial books 
published by mainstream publishers about Zope. I know from 
experiejce that a publisher won't go to print unless they are 
confident they can sell at least several thousand copies.

Howeever Zope is a very big comprehesive web environment, 
much bigger than is needed for the majority of web projects.
My guess is that the most popeular web frameworks just 
now are Django and TurboGears(*), both of which are much 
simpler than Zope but offer much of its convenience. As I 
understand it ikaaro is more directly targetted at the Django 
type user community than Zope. Zope is great if youneed to 
build a big complex web site with many visitors each performing 
complex transactions.

(*)TurboGears is really a package of other framework 
components, most notably CherryPy which has its own 
independant community and so could therefore be argued 
to be most popular if you aggregate TurboGears and 
CherryPy users.

But comparing Zope with ikaaro is not really a sensible 
comparison. Its like comparing Microsoft Access with 
IBM DB2 as databases. They have totally different 
audiences.

HTH,

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld