GuideForStudents

So, who should come to a Plone bootcamp?

• People who want to customize the look/feel of Plone
• People who want to develop new content types for Plone
• People who want to develop products for Plone, or hack on Plone

In the past, I (Joel) haven't focused as much on:

• Deploying large-scale Plone sites

Since that tends to be rather setup- and project-specific info.

In past classes I've taught (bootcamp or otherwise), the requirements for students have been:

• Have installed Zope/Plone on their own machines
• Know basic Python
  • Level of knowledge you'd get from working through DiveIntoPython
  • Need to understand Python syntax, indentation, and basic "expressiveness" (ie, how to say things "take a string, and add another string to it, and try to convert it to an integer"
• Know HTML/CSS
  • Guru-level knowledge here isn't needed, but trying to learn Zope Page Templates and HTML at the same time isn't feasible.

Other skills are beneficial, like having a basic understanding of relational databases, and how web forms work, etc., but these haven't been required in the past.