Pyramid has emerged as a fast, modern, lightweight web framework for the Pylons and Zope communities. When you just need a web app, and not a full CMS, Pyramid lets you retain many of the same Plone technologies or start from scratch.

This hands-on tutorial covers a little about a lot: practical introductions to the most common facilities.  Fun, fast-paced, and most certainly not aimed at experts.

Topics Covered

• Installation and setup, up to "hello world"
• Views, templates, macros, and more
• Static resources
• Traversal
• Traversal, explained by a civilian, for civilians
• Forms and schemas
• Content types
• Persistence with ZODB
• Cataloging and indexing
• Security
• Configuration
• Internationalizing

Each of these topics will be introduced, but not covered to the point of universal exhaustion.  However, each topic will include hands-on work by each student.

Audience

Humans! In all honesty and disclosure, the instructor himself isn't a guru (those there will be guru helpers in the class.) Thus, this is a tutorial for regular folks who know a bit about Python and web development. Familiarity with the technologies of Plone will help, but are not required.

Prerequisites

A good, fun attitude. If you'd like to follow along with the material, a laptop with Python 2.6.x or higher and a good editor.