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Background
==========
-To code along with the BFG wiki tutorial, the developer will need a
-UNIX machine with development tools (Mac OS X with XCode, any Linux or
-BSD variant, etc) *or* he will need a Windows system of any kind.
+This version of the BFG wiki tutorial presents a :mod:`repoze.bfg`
+application that uses technologies which will be familiar to someone
+with :term:`Zope` experience. It uses :term:`ZODB` as a persistence
+mechanism and :term:`traversal` to map URLs to code. It can also be
+followed by people without any prior Python web framework experience.
+
+To code along with this tutorial, the developer will need a UNIX
+machine with development tools (Mac OS X with XCode, any Linux or BSD
+variant, etc) *or* he will need a Windows system of any kind.
The tutorial makes mention of a CDROM disk. This is due to the fact
that the tutorial is taught "live" under some circumstances. When it