The Zope tutorial teaches you Zope in a simple, hands-on fashion. It does not explain Zope. You should really read the Zope Book to learn Zope. The tutorial supplements the book. The tutorial is appropriate for new Zope users.

The tutorial is part of the Zope online help system. It is located at ZopeTutorial in the online help system. It ships with Zope 2.x. To use the tutorial choose "Zope Tutorial" from the product add list. Then provide an ID for the examples folder and click the "Add" button. Next click the "Begin Tutorial" button. You'll be taken to the tutorial. In one window you can read the tutorial lessons, while in the main Zope management window you can work on the examples.

You can preview the Zope Tutorial on Zope.org. This is not the best way to read the tutorial. It's a much better idea to work along in the Zope management screens as you read the tutorial.

Status

10/31/2000 - The tutorial is up to date. It currently consists of eleven lessons.

Plan

The tutorial will probably not be expanded too much more. Perhaps it should be merged with the book in some way. When we have a canonical URL for the book, we'll need to update the glossary links to point to the Book and not the Guides. The tutorial should be expanded to cover new features of Zope 2.3 including Python scripts. Also the tutorial should perhaps be merged with the default content.

Contact

The tutorial was written by Amos Latteier. If you have questions, comments, or corrections, send them to [email protected].

How to Contribute

If you want to author new tutorial chapters that's great, send them to the same address. If you want to know how the tutorial was implemented take a look at the files in "lib/python/Products/ZopeTutorial". Notice how all the lessons are basically just structured text. If you really want to make our lives easier, send us your lesson in structured text and include a Zope export (.zexp) file with your example objects.

All online help documents are in CVS, so accepting patches is easy. For more information on online help see How to Document your Zope Product.

For now you can send comments, questions and patches to [email protected]. Soon we should have a more formal system for contributions.