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authorChris McDonough <chrism@agendaless.com>2010-01-17 01:40:43 +0000
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be hard-pressed to find a better "first language."
Web technology familiarity is assumed in various places within the
-book. For example, the book describes various interactions in terms
-of the HTTP protocol, but it does not describe how the HTTP protocol
-works in detail. Like any good framework, though, :mod:`repoze.bfg`
-shields you from needing to know the gory details of web protocols
-such as HTTP, and you can usually skip such descriptions without
-becoming "blocked," although you may lack some fundamental
-understanding of how it works "under the hood" as a result.
+book. For example, the book doesn't try to define common web-related
+concepts like "URL" or "query string." Likewise, the book describes
+various interactions in terms of the HTTP protocol, but it does not
+describe how the HTTP protocol works in detail. Like any good web
+framework, though, :mod:`repoze.bfg` shields you from needing to know
+most of the gory details of web protocols and low-level data
+structures. As a result, you can usually avoid becoming "blocked"
+while you read this book even if you don't yet deeply understand web
+technologies.
.. index::
single: repoze.zope2