Class Outline: Introduction to Web Application Development with TurboGears

  * Introduction to Web Development -- From CGI to Object Publishing.
      * Overview of HTTP, HTML, and the fundamentals of web programming
      * Overview of Python Web Programming tools from Bobo to
        TurboGears and Django
  * Introduction to the Model-View-Controller pattern.
      * Open Discussion of the weeknesses of the JSP/ASP/PHP model
      * History of MVC from Smalltalk 80 to TurboGears
      * Overview of the TurboGears Architecture
      * A Request's Journey through the TurboGears Stack
  * TurboGears Models: SQL, SQLObject, and Object Relational Mapping
      * What is an ORM?
      * How do I define tables with SQLObject
      * How do I insert data into my tables?
      * How do I query the database with SQLObject?
  * TurboGears Controllers: CherryPy and URL Dispatching
      * Object Publishing overview
      * How CherryPy Dispatches requests to your Objects
      * Positional Parameters and the "default" method
  * TurboGears Templates: XHTML Templates, and the Kid templating engine
  * Workshop -- Building a social bookmarking application.
       In this section of the class we will break up into groups
       and write code The objective is to build a simple application
       together.
  * Form Validation:  Introduction to Form Encode validators 
  * Easy Forms with TurboGears Widgets:  
      * Discuss how to build a form widget that validates itself
      * Discuss the way Form Widgets work
      * Look under the covers at how Form Widgets display validation
        error messages