Ask HN: Advice for someone struggling to learn Django

Post by megasquid » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 11:15 PM UTC

limedaring wrote: post #18

smithmayowa wrote: post #17

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try searching for djangogirls and hellowebapp tutorial on google that helped me learn django basic concept in a relative short frame of time two months to be exact, then check out https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com blog posts on various python frameworks implementation and browse through github for various Django projects source code particularly drskepy django hackathon boiler plate. And if you still have problem…

Author of Hello Web App here — thanks for recommending! I actually moved the entire tutorial online recently, you can read it for free here: https://hellowebbooks.com/tutorial/ It's written in a way to help you build something unique, which might help your issue, OP. Basically I walk through building a "collection of things," which you can alter to create something like a Twitter clone, a directory, a blog, a store,…

Post by togusa2017 » Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 11:16 PM UTC

ldonley wrote: post #10

It might be worthwhile to use a library like Flask which has less batteries included. This will force you to figure out which pieces of the puzzle you are missing and will (hopefully) allow you to learn a lot through exploration. Once you understand what everything is doing, going back to Django, you should understand what all of the components are doing. Django & Flask are not exactly one-to-one with the way they ha…